Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Activity 19 on page 26

1a) From this extract taken from the guardian newspaper the main function is Transactional language, this is due to the fact that this extract is passing on information. 

1b) To the end of the text the function is informative, This is because to the end of the text it starts to talk about the fact that in Liberia teenage females are being recruited to fight in a civil war.

1c)I think that this extract from the guardian is very effective because of the visual presentation as well as the graphology, the fact that there is a stiletto with camouflage markings basically sums up and justifies the text as well as the fact that there is a lot of question marks and a change of word colouring, it allows the reader to connect the dots and by doing so it draws them in, which suggests that another function could be persuade.

2)The use of Short snappy sentences allow the reader to stay interested and intrigued in wanting to gain more knowledge upon the subject, there's no paragraphs which could suggest the level of importance, the use of question marks and rhetorical questions allows the reader to think and base an opinion, The white background shows that nothing else is as important as the stiletto and the brief paragraph, the fact that the image of the shoe is over the text shows that it's more important I the matter, "Explore the world" is in a bold font wich suggests the importance of the shot sentence and the fact that the reader needs to be able to see it

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