Title: Purpose and Audience
1Purpose and Audience
2Purpose
- Purpose means what the text is for..
- Ask yourself,
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Why has it been written?
Why is it being said?
3PURPOSE EXAMPLES OF TEXTS
To Entertain Films, cartoons, comics
To Inform Newspaper articles, non-fiction stories, documentaries
To Persuade Discursive writing, debates, donations, political stories
To Instruct How to guides, cookbooks, manuals, first aid books!
To Recount Diary entries, journals
To Evaluate School reports, science reports
4AUDIENCE
- Who is the text for?
- Who is supposed to read it?
- Who would be interested in it?
- Young/old/teenagers
- Male/female
- People interested in certain interest/hobbies
- ..
5Register
- Register refers to language choices used
- Are the words used FORMAL OR INFORMAL?
- Is it conversational and relaxed or full of
technical terms and jargon
6Example Ebola
Article 1 Article 2
Purpose (Evidence)
Audience (Evidence
7What is the purpose/audience of .
Evidence How do you know this?
8What is the purpose/audience of What do you
think the register will be?
9What is the purpose of
10Purpose, Audience(A trickier one!!)
11What is the purpose/audience/register of
12What is the purpose/audience/register of
13What is the purpose/audience/register of