This text is in the form of
a newspaper article. Its purpose is to entertain an audience of students, due
to it being about A Levels, so roughly an age range of 16 – 19. The text varies
between using simple e.g. ‘Back then grades seemed more appealing than social
exile for a bad outfit’ and complex e.g. ‘Like many students across the
country, I spent the last few years learning about Pythagoras’ theorem, and
that mitochondria is the powerhouse of a cell’ sentence structures.
The graphology used is quite
simple. It’s the same font throughout which suggests that the writer aims for
it to be easily read. The 8 main points are highlighted in bold above the
paragraph to stand out. The text here is enlarged which catches the attention
of the reader and typically they would end up reading the headings before the
rest of the text. The grammar supports the audience; i.e. no full stops on the
headings. This is because young readers are not going to pick up
(stereotypically as much as an older person) on non-standard grammar.
