Tuesday, 19 January 2016

Guardian Article "Eight things I wish I'd known before starting my A-levels" with 2 Frameworks

http://www.theguardian.com/education/mortarboard/2016/jan/11/eight-things-i-wish-id-known-before-starting-my-a-levels




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.



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