Thursday, 12 February 2015

Grouping texts on persuasion

Text B, C, D, and E share the primary or secondary purpose to persuade. Texts D and C choose to use a web-address as a way to persuade the reader to look into further information about what they are saying. Text D is a magazine aimed towards children and so to grab their attention they put the web-address into a separate box in the bottom middle of the page, standing it out from the rest of the text. The web-address in text D also appeals to it's target audience of children with the word "info" instead of 'information' as it is shorter and quicker to read and possibly easier to read for their younger audiences. Text C does something similar of putting the web-address in a eye-catching spot by having it in bold at the bottom of the page underneath information about the author of the book it's from. There are actually 3 web-addresses, one for each of his main books and one about himself. This would appeal to loyal readers who buy all his books and would want to know as much about them as possible, and also new readers just getting interested in the franchise and might want to find more of his work.These are both strong and weak inclusions as the texts are trying to inform their audience, but also either persuade their audience into signing up for a swim team (text D) or to read more of the authors books (Text C). A strong inclusion is text B which is a extract of a health and safety segment of a game booklet, the whole purpose of a health and safety segment is to inform the audience but also to persuade them not to do anything dangerous by informing them of the consequences. the beginning of the booklet starts out with the word "please", this polite register makes the audience want to follow this action as it seems more of a request. The use of polite words engages with the audience much the way that direct address does. Text B does use direct address as a method of persuasion, as does text E. Text E is from a porridge package which makes it a strong inclusion to this group as it's purpose is to persuade their audience to buy their product. They do this by using 2nd person direct address much like text B does by using "your" implying that the audience have already bought the product as it is something they 'need'. Another way that text E persuades their audience to buy their product is hyperbolic language, the use of "deliciously creamy" makes their product sound appealing and thus someone would want to purchase it to experience the delicious and creamy porridge. 

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