Written Mode- English Language
Year 11 English Language
Unit 1, Assessment Task 2:
Report – Language in Urban Environments
Written Mode
Introduction
Communication is a tool with which we exercise our influence on others, bring out changes in our and others’ attitudes, motivate the people around us and establish and maintain relationships with them. Communication forms a major part of our life and is a social activity. This social activity is pursued verbally through speech, reading and writing or non-verbally through body language. The focus of this report will be mainly on written side of communication. The written mode is significant part of communication, as it offers great advantages, especially in an urban environment, where it can convey its message more effectively than other modes such as oral or physical (body language) through the use of eye catching banners and shady graffiti art to bold historical quotes and digitalised advertising. It can be said that written mode is an innovative activity, as it generally requires more planning and preparations, is static and permanent and generally more valued in society (cont. in discussion). Our research in this field was unfortunately very limited due to the time frame provided; however, we did obtain a variety of results (Road signs, memorial plaques, advertisement billboards .etc.) and will be focusing on these in our report. (Please Note that we did not record any examples of spoken language therefore this report will only focus on the written side of communication).
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Methodology
This research task was conducted on the 13th of March 2012, from 0900 hours to1320 hours (approx.) in a group of 3 under a partial supervision of Ms Banaag (majority of this task was conducted independently). The research and the collection of data for this task were done throughout the day and information was gathered from a variety of sources. The exact
Unit 1, Assessment Task 2:
Report – Language in Urban Environments
Written Mode
Introduction
Communication is a tool with which we exercise our influence on others, bring out changes in our and others’ attitudes, motivate the people around us and establish and maintain relationships with them. Communication forms a major part of our life and is a social activity. This social activity is pursued verbally through speech, reading and writing or non-verbally through body language. The focus of this report will be mainly on written side of communication. The written mode is significant part of communication, as it offers great advantages, especially in an urban environment, where it can convey its message more effectively than other modes such as oral or physical (body language) through the use of eye catching banners and shady graffiti art to bold historical quotes and digitalised advertising. It can be said that written mode is an innovative activity, as it generally requires more planning and preparations, is static and permanent and generally more valued in society (cont. in discussion). Our research in this field was unfortunately very limited due to the time frame provided; however, we did obtain a variety of results (Road signs, memorial plaques, advertisement billboards .etc.) and will be focusing on these in our report. (Please Note that we did not record any examples of spoken language therefore this report will only focus on the written side of communication).
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Methodology
This research task was conducted on the 13th of March 2012, from 0900 hours to1320 hours (approx.) in a group of 3 under a partial supervision of Ms Banaag (majority of this task was conducted independently). The research and the collection of data for this task were done throughout the day and information was gathered from a variety of sources. The exact