text types

What are text types

Similar types of text with a distinctive pattern

Name different types of audiences

Age, gender, education, social class, location, consumption habits, political stance, expertise

What are the 4 purposes of texts?

Inform, instruction, persuade, entertain

What are the main features of a text with a purpose to inform?

3rd person, assumes reader has background knowledge, academic, unbiased, clear structure

What are the key features of a text with a purpose to instruct?

2nd person, chronological, graphological devices, imperative, subject specific terminology

What are the key features of a text with a purpose to persuade?

1st person, pathos/logos/ethos, direct to audience, convincing by using rhetorical Qs/repeirion

What are the key terms of a text with a purpose to entertain?

Colloquial language, eye catching layout, figurative language, sensational

Key features of broadsheets

Report facts, formal, meant to have less bias, credible, complex, politics, middle class/uni educated audience

Key features of tabloids

To entertain, sensational and opinionated, not reliable, easy to read, common colloquial terms, pop culture

What is an unknown audience

When an author doesn’t know who will read it

Tabloid newspapers

The Daily Mirror

Daily Mail

The Sun

Daily Express

Broadsheet newspapers

The Telegraph

The Times

The independent / I

Guardian

Financial Times

Observer

What are tabloid newspapers more commonly..

Right wing