A⁺ Grade sample responses analysing the use of language for the topic:

"Getting our future back on the rails - slowly."

Background information
The residents in a community have been discussing possible future uses for an area of
land that has not been used since the closure of a railway line. The local city council owns
the land and will decide how the land should be used. The Grow Slow Garden Group has
proposed that the land be used for a community garden.
The leader of the Grow Slow Garden Group has produced a newsletter.

Before the council’s decision is made, this newsletter will be distributed
to every household in the local area.

TASK
Part 1
Write a note-form summary of the newsletter.
Your response must be in note form. Do not use complete sentences.
Part 2
Write a piece of prose that explains how language and visual features have been used in the newsletter to
attempt to persuade the readers about three of the main points in the newsletter.