Anthology Part 1: Adichie and Zephaniah, voices that challenge assumptions

Form: the text of a talk (a TED talk, 2009), so it has a spoken, conversational voice and addresses an audience.
Content: Adichie grew up in Nigeria reading British and American children's books, and her own early stories copied them, with characters and weather that had nothing to do with her life. She describes a houseboy, Fide, whose family she only thought of as poor until she saw something beautiful his brother had made. At university in the United States, her roommate was surprised by her English and assumed things about her life in Africa.
Message: if we hear only one story about a people, we end up seeing them as only one thing. Adichie admits she has done this herself, which makes her argument fair rather than preachy.

Form: a newspaper article (The Guardian, 2015) written by a famous poet for young readers.
Content: Zephaniah describes his own harsh experiences at school as a dyslexic child, then argues that dyslexia can be an advantage: dyslexic people can be creative and good at seeing things differently.
Methods examiners noted (June 2025 report): anecdote that moves into a more argumentative structure, pronouns, groups of three and anaphora (repeated openings), sibilance, antithesis, modal verbs that vary how certain he sounds, and a structure that loops back to its opening idea, ending on a confident metaphor about dyslexic people shaping their own lives.