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A2 Literature Critical Essay Help

My teacher gave me the title of "Why Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder Should be Included in the Top 25 Short Stories Ever" and said I should write it like a magazine article, but I'm really confused at exactly what I'm supposed to be doing. Can someone help? or share examples.

Can I write it in a sort of jokey, playful style, like you might see in a magazine? Don't want to do that then hand it in and find out I did the complete wrong thing.

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The specification says you should write in the form of either a short essay, a review or a piece of journalism, but I don't think it can be jokey. You're supposed to use, I believe, Section C of the CW booklet to inform your argument for the inclusion of Bradbury's text.
Sorry I can't be more help (my teacher lets us choose our own task and section of the anthology), but you should ask your teacher for more guidance. The specification says you should: show an informed knowledge of the critical ideas and the text you are applying those ideas to (in your case, section C and Bradbury's 'A Sound of Thunder'), show how form, structure and language affect the way texts can be read, make connections between your text and the critical ideas, consider different interpretations and consider and evaluate both contexts of reception and production and their effects.
Good luck anyway.