Purpose of a text and text conventions: reporting

These are some sentence starters that you can use to respond to strand 2 questions in Criteria A and B. Likewise, you can use them in other subjects when you speak or write and want to refer to the text you are using.

Addressing texts conventions

• This article was about. . .
• Considering what the author said,
• The article aims at…
• Since the author wants readers/viewers to feel_____, he/she used….
• The author used images / graphs / mind maps in order to …
• The purpose of this article is to . . .
• The information presented . . .
• This article was designed to . . .
• The information in the text . . .
• After reading the text, I will try to . . .
• After viewing the video, I will attempt to . . .
• It was difficult to . . . so . . .
• Judging by the images, I can say that …
• The language used by the speaker / writer / author indicates that…
• Each paragraph . . .

In higher phases. 

Using indirect speech (no speech marks needed)

• He reported that . . .
• He also claimed that . . .
• He went on to state that . . .
• He confirmed that . . .
• She claimed that . . .
• He disputed that . . .
• She refused to accept that . . .
• He agreed that . . .
• He went on to tell us that . . .
• He continued by informing us that . . .
• In addition to this . . .
• He also spoke of how . . .
• He refused to accept that . . .
• He reputed . . .
• He emphasised . . .
• He continued by . . .
• A spokesman stated that . . .