Not made by me, but freely available on the OCR B Geography NING by a very good teacher and just put on here so i can link to it from http://missnashgeography.blogspot.co.uk/

1. A Writing Strategy…
Point Evidence Explanation Link
Is there a point of view What information do you What effect does this What does this point and
that needs sharing? have to support your evidence have? evidence have to do with
Is there an important point? How important is the the question?
piece of the puzzle that Are there quotes that you evidence that you have
you can share? can use to illustrate the shared?
Do you need to define a point that you are
term? making?
Are there examples that
you can include that
show what you mean?
To begin with… For example… As a result of… In conclusion…
Moving on to… This is shown in… This means that… This tells us that…
As well as… Such as… This caused… This helps answer the
question because…
…Now try being creative

2. Point Evidence Explanation Link
Use Resource 3 to explain why there is a housing crisis in Britain.
Resource 3 states that This is shown by the This increase means These new homes will
the population in fact the population that more new homes need to be built
Britain is rising has risen by 2 million will be needed for this somewhere and
(Independent in the last 10 years increasing population. recent announcements
newspaper) (Daily Mail from the government
November 2012) have said they will
need to be built on
greenfield land and
will be large
settlements
The thing I want to talk The bit that proves my Showing that I know I know what all this
about point what the evidence means writing has to do with
my question