Examining Texts

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Examining Texts

• Type, Audience and Purpose

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• What types of texts are there?

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Prior Learning Types of Text

• As we have seen, there are many different types
  of text. Remember, anything that communicates
  information can be regarded as a text.
• Examples newspaper report magazine article
  novel short story leaflet email drama script,
  etc.

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Our learning intentions are

• To recognise that different Types of text follow
  different rules (conventions).
• To be able to identify the Audience that a
  particular text is aimed at.
• To understand that the type of text chosen
  depends on the Purpose of the communication.
  

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Type, Audience and Purpose

• Before writing or analysing any text, you must
  ask yourself the following questions. What type
  of text it is? Who is the audience? What is
  the purpose of the text?
• There are a number of clues that can help us
  answer these questions and a number of
  rules/conventions we need to stick to when
  producing our own texts.

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Type

• As we have seen, there are many different types
  of text. Remember, anything that communicates
  information can be regarded as a text.
• We are going to focus on texts that rely
  predominantly on words.
• Examples newspaper report magazine article
  novel short story leaflet email drama script,
  etc.

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Audience

• This refers to who the text is written for.
• Examples of audience include young children
  teenagers women interested in fashion men
  interested in fitness educated adults medical
  professionals.
• The content of the writing must be geared towards
  appealing to the audiences expectations and
  desires.

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Purpose

• This refers to what the piece of writing is
  trying to achieve.
• Examples of purpose are more limited.These are
  to entertain to persuade to convey information
• A piece of writing can have more than one
  purpose.
• Again, the content of the piece of writing will
  be specifically designed to make sure it meets
  the purpose (or purposes).

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Text 1.

• Read the following text.The world you live in
  is full of energy light, heat, electricity and
  sounds are some of the forms that energy takes.
  Most energy comes from the Sun, which provides
  heat and light for plants to grow, to keep you
  warm and let you see. 'The Usborne Book of
  Science'

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Now in pairs or small groups tackle the following
task.

• Try to identify the Type, Audience and Purpose.
• Provide reasons for your decisions.
• Write your answer on the grid provided

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Model Answer

• This text is taken from a reference book (type)
  was written for young children (audience) to
  provide information (purpose) about energy.
• The writer has matched the text to the audience
  and purpose by
• Using simple sentences.
• Using words that most young children will be able
  to read and understand.
• Addressing the reader directly by using the word
  "you".

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Excellent work! Well done!

• Now you are ready to analyse the following texts
  in the same way.Remember
• Try to identify the Type, Audience and Purpose.
• Provide reasons for your decisions.
• Write your answer on the grid provided

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Text 2

• Read the following example
• Awryt neebz, yae gan doon the bevee fir sum
  bantz likeeeee!? Im at th sk8 prk wi Baz lol
• Identify the type, the audience and the purpose.
• Again, provide reasons to support.

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Text 3

• Monster Frankenstein!Frankenstein Demon
  He springs at the Monster as if to kill him,
  but the Monster leaps lightly into the room and
  easily brushes him aside. Frankenstein falls,
  but jumps up again and grapples with
  him.Frankenstein Murderer! You did this,
  didnt you? You killed my brother. Monster!
  Vile thing!Monster I am exactly what you
  made me Frankenstein.

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Text 4.

• 24 Oriel Road
• Kirkcaldy
• KY6 1PY
• Dear John,
• Just a quick note to say thanks for coming to
  my barbeque. Everyone seemed to have a wonderful
  time, despite the rain and midges.
• I hope your wife is feeling better. I cant for
  the life of me work out how she could have got
  food poisoning so quickly. If only we had a
  toilet outside, eh?
• Hope to see you soon.
• Yours sincerely,
• Jean