Examine How the Writers Shape or Craft Each Text to Meet the Expectations of Their Respective Audience, Purpose and Context
Examine how the writers shape or craft each text to meet the expectations of their respective audience, purpose and context
Excerpt from Weblog and extract from Vernon God Little by DCB Pierre
Text B is in the form of a blog, which is an online diary updated regularly by its author. Text C is an extract from the novel Vernon God Little by DCB Pierre.
Both authors target a young adult audience through use of a casual tone to engage the reader and gain empathetic response. The weblog writer uses colloquialisms such as
‘gutted’,
and elision;
‘Whatcha’
DCB Pierre engages a young audience through use of a teenage protagonist.
The weblog starts in medea res with use of the discourse marker
‘So after another...’ creating an informal ambience. This also suggests that the audience are regular readers of this particular blog, as they are expected to understand what the conversation is referring back to. The writer uses contractions;
‘Isn’t’
which reassures the informal tone.
A similar tone is used in Vernon God Little, as the protagonist directly addresses the reader throughout;
‘You’d remember Clarence somebody’. and uses the present tense to further engage the reader;
‘I sit waiting...’ The weblog writer uses parenthesis to convey to the reader a further thought on the previous statement;
‘On the plus side (a very small plus size)’
This further engages the reader and makes them feel as though they are directly involved with the writer.
The main purpose of both texts is to entertain, however both also inform the reader of the protagonist’s current situation; the weblog writer has just received news informing them that they have not been successful in a job application. JCB Pierre’s protagonist is currently in prison;
‘I sit waiting between shafts of light from a row of doorways... looks like I’m the only one they rounded up so far’
This suggests that perhaps the protagonist is innocent, or there were more people involved in the crime as
Excerpt from Weblog and extract from Vernon God Little by DCB Pierre
Text B is in the form of a blog, which is an online diary updated regularly by its author. Text C is an extract from the novel Vernon God Little by DCB Pierre.
Both authors target a young adult audience through use of a casual tone to engage the reader and gain empathetic response. The weblog writer uses colloquialisms such as
‘gutted’,
and elision;
‘Whatcha’
DCB Pierre engages a young audience through use of a teenage protagonist.
The weblog starts in medea res with use of the discourse marker
‘So after another...’ creating an informal ambience. This also suggests that the audience are regular readers of this particular blog, as they are expected to understand what the conversation is referring back to. The writer uses contractions;
‘Isn’t’
which reassures the informal tone.
A similar tone is used in Vernon God Little, as the protagonist directly addresses the reader throughout;
‘You’d remember Clarence somebody’. and uses the present tense to further engage the reader;
‘I sit waiting...’ The weblog writer uses parenthesis to convey to the reader a further thought on the previous statement;
‘On the plus side (a very small plus size)’
This further engages the reader and makes them feel as though they are directly involved with the writer.
The main purpose of both texts is to entertain, however both also inform the reader of the protagonist’s current situation; the weblog writer has just received news informing them that they have not been successful in a job application. JCB Pierre’s protagonist is currently in prison;
‘I sit waiting between shafts of light from a row of doorways... looks like I’m the only one they rounded up so far’
This suggests that perhaps the protagonist is innocent, or there were more people involved in the crime as