You have been asked to write an article for a college magazine about the impact of social media on young people today. You should argue for or against the statement: 'Social media does more harm than good for young people.' Write your article. You should refer to and make use of ideas from Text 1 and Text 2 to support your points.

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme. The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. Content and Communication (15 marks):
2. Level 0: No rewardable material.
3. Level 1 (1-3 marks): Limited awareness of purpose, audience, and form. Minimal development of ideas. Limited use of source texts.
4. Level 2 (4-6 marks): Some awareness of purpose, audience, and form. Ideas are partially developed. Some appropriate, but perhaps superficial, use of source texts.
5. Level 3 (7-9 marks): Clear understanding of purpose, audience, and form (article). Ideas are relevant and developed. Good integration and adaptation of ideas from source texts.
6. Level 4 (10-12 marks): Effective communication of ideas, with a strong sense of purpose, audience, and form. Well-developed arguments. Skilful integration and adaptation of ideas from source texts to support a clear stance.
7. Level 5 (13-15 marks): Highly effective and engaging communication, with a sophisticated understanding of purpose, audience, and form. Mature and insightful development of ideas. Sophisticated and subtle integration and adaptation of ideas from source texts to produce a compelling and coherent argument.
8. Accuracy, Punctuation and Spelling (15 marks):
9. Level 0: No rewardable material.
10. Level 1 (1-3 marks): Limited control of grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Errors impede meaning.
11. Level 2 (4-6 marks): Some control of grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Errors may be frequent but usually do not impede meaning.
12. Level 3 (7-9 marks): Secure control of grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Some errors may be present but are minor and do not impede meaning.
13. Level 4 (10-12 marks): Consistently accurate grammar, spelling, and punctuation. A wide range of sentence structures and vocabulary used to enhance meaning and effect.
14. Level 5 (13-15 marks): Highly accurate and sophisticated control of grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Wide-ranging and precise vocabulary, along with varied and complex sentence structures, used expertly to achieve particular effects.