Analyzing Mike Adams Diet Pills

Mike Adams: “Diet pills consumed in large quantities by teen girls seeking athletic look”
This report prepared by Helga higginbottom focuses on the purpose, target audience, structure, language and context of a feature article. “Diet pills consumed in large quantities by teen girls seeking athletic look.” This feature article was written by Mike Adams the health ranger on the 8th of July 2004.
The purpose of all feature articles is to inform, persuade and entertain. My dietary article about teens informs readers about how teenage girls are at high risk of becoming anorexic and taking dieting pills as the media and other influences pushes them over the edge. The writer tries to persuade teenage readers not to become involved in this little
Feature articles such as mine have a rather plain set out and plain heading but a big picture to entice the specific target audience to read the article. Feature articles like mine have bold text and flowing paragraphs to make it easier to read, especially since the target audience is teenagers and quite often pages of writing can be skipped by teenagers as they get distracted easily. My feature article has a rather bold headline to also catch the eye of teenage girls it reads “Diet pills consumed in large quantities by teen girls seeking athletic look” stating the words “teenage girls” in the text helps to entice readers and make them interested in the key topic of the article. This is important and done extremely well in my article, the actual text is fairly large and easy to read and the paragraphing is minimal making the text easier to read. The entire article has been set up for teenagers and has been made to look less formal than most feature articles to attract teens, and as you can imagine a big manuscript of text with no images is not going to entice a teenage
My article is in standard Australian English e.g. “What these teenagers really need to be doing, if they want thin bodies, is to give up soft drinks, pizza, alcohol, fast food, snack chips, fried foods, refined carbohydrates, and other forms of processed foods.” My article also has percentage rates to really enforce the issue upon teenagers and to make sure they understand just how serious the topic issue actually is. The article contains sentences involving these percentages etc. Such as “A frightening 34% of teen girls are now popping these diet pills, a figure that's even higher than males.” It has this because it is appropriate for my target audience. That particular sentence also informs that this is an ongoing problem with males also and draws upon the fact that it’s not just teenage girls but also males as