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Paper 1 Review
Text Types and Specific Features
Speech
Specific features:
Speaker: Focus on credibility, why they've created that speech and what they want from the audience.
Occasion: Where is the speech taking place?
Exigence: Why is the speech being said at that moment? What caused this speech to be made at this moment? This is the timing of the speech.
Interview
Specific features:
Formality of relationship between interviewer and interviewee: Is the relationship between interviewer and interviewee formal, informal, adversarial or condescending?
Keys to Analysis:
What is the publication? What is the formality and purpose of the interview?
How does the interview's questions help the interviewer's agenda?
Letter
Op-Ed
An Op-Ed, or an Opinion Editorial, is a current-day based text type that expresses an opinion about a specific issue.
Specific features:
News hook: What piece of information is used to catch the reader's attention?
Keys to Analysis:
The source
Context
Ethics
Use of loaded, emotional language and rhetorical devices
What is the writer's agenda? Implicit or explicit?
Advertisements
Travel Writing
Travel writing describes a faraway location from the point of a view of an outsider, with the aim of letting readers picture the scene and revealing some information about another place, or a local place from the point of view of a local trying to entice people to visit said place.
Specific features:
Use of literary devices to take the reader to the location in combination with technical information about the destination
Travel writing focuses more on one's roots or personal experiences
Travel writing follows a chronological, linear timeline
Personal Journaling
Types of personal journaling: Diary and blog
Terminology
Viewpoint: Diaries and blogs are usually written in a first-person point-of-view
Purpose:
Blogs have a flexible purpose
Diaries are used to keep track of a person's life
Diction:
Blogs use terminology that is specific for the genre
Diaries are informal and might use colloquialisms. The reader must look for how tone and language changes through each entry
Structure:
Blogs can be chronological or linear. Blogs can also use subheadings or clear connections to other blog features
Diaries are chronological, linear, and sometimes used in flashbacks in order to process events
Visual Elements:
Since blogs are online, visuals will be used to support the purpose. The visuals are specifically chosen so make note of them
For diaries, are there doodles? Is the handwriting important to note? There aren’t many visual elements with diaries
Specific features of a diary:
Diaries don't have an audience beyond the writer
A diary is a freeform text type
Each diary writer has their own stylistic techniques
A diary is the most personal text type possible
Specific features of a blog:
Blogs are written for personal reasons and are meant to be read by an audience
Blogs can be genre-specific or eclectic
Blogs can be informational, persuasive, entertaining, or a combination of all three
Blogs are found online
Political Cartoon
Text Types and Specific Features
Brochure
Reviews
Where can you find reviews?
What type of P/M/B services have reviews?
Who is writing reviews? What is their purpose?
When is this review published?
How is this review presented?
Blogs
Essays
Analysis
• Identify author’s purpose, subject and audience
• Consider context if you know it
• Look at structure:
o Find the claim/thesis
o Evidence used
o Tone
o Author’s bias (connotation and diction)
• Comment on style matching audience
Information
• Purpose is to explore or argue ideas on a single topic
o Short (3-20 pages)
o Formal or informal
o Biographical, photo, narrative, answering questions, addressing a social issue, etc.
• Nearly always written in prose
• Clearly organized and directed toward a specific audience
• Can be cause and effect, analogies, opinion, persuasion, classification, description, reviews, compare and contrast
• Will use literary and rhetorical devices
News Articles
Infographic
Websties
Common Text Type Elements
Audience
Who is the text type targeting or directed towards? This is a common element in every text type because every text type is created to target or be directed towards a certain group.
Purpose
Why was this text type created?
Common Literary and Linguistic Features
Tone
The tone is the overall attitude of the text type. This is important for the reader as they can determine the angle or perspective of the certain text type depending on the tone.
Paper 1 Specific Details
Length: Paper 1 is a two hour exam
Weighted Score
Specifications