How toppers approached this question
The increasing use of digital surveillance technologies for maintaining law and order is a debatable issue. Critically examine the statement from the ethical point of view.
How toppers built answers of this type: the structure spine and the moves they converged on. Aggregated across real past-paper answers for this paper and directive, not this one question, so no question-specific evidence is shown. No answer text is reproduced.
The topper method
Critically examine
The spine toppers built
Open
- Define the key term first
- Context-hook opening
- Anecdote opening
Build
- Both sides before the verdict
- Multi-dimensional buckets
- Numbered enumeration
Close
- Verdict conclusion
- Forward-looking close
Moves they converged on
- Verdict conclusion76% of answers
End with a clear verdict.
- Both sides before the verdict70% of answers
Weigh both sides before taking a stand.
- Example as evidence70% of answers
Tag a concrete example explicitly as evidence.
- Define the key term first55% of answers
Open by defining the central term.
- ‘However’ pivot52% of answers
Pivot to nuance with a qualifier.
Evidence toppers carried (per answer)
People ~3Concepts ~2Thinkers ~2Examples ~1Statutes ~1
GS4 · Critically examine: derived from 33 real past-paper answers: counts, not copied prose
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