How Arguments Flow

English LanguageAQAGCSEUnit: Sustained Argument
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📜 The Argument That Goes Nowhere

📜 The Argument That Goes Nowhere

A student wrote five strong points about social media. Each one was correct. Each one was well-phrased. But the examiner gave it a Level 3, not a Level 5. Why? Because the five points existed in five separate bubbles. None of them followed from the one before. The argument did not flow — it merely accumulated.

AQA Q5 rewards the ability to build an argument, not just list one.

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🔍 Two Scales, One Skill

Local flow means each paragraph follows from the paragraph before it. The opening sentence of paragraph 2 connects to the closing idea of paragraph 1 — not by copying it, but by growing from it. The argument moves. The reader is never stranded.

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Quiz · Question 1 of 11

Which word or phrase creates argument FLOW rather than just adding a new point?

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