Article Plan - 2

Article Planning Sheet – ‘Reading Recommendations’

Plan the language use of the primary code of your article in the box below.

Article target audience:

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	For my 2nd article, my article will be a summary/review. This is because my article will be an accompaniment to a list of reading recommendations. The purpose of the article is to entice my audience into reading the recommendations in the list I will present to them. Without the accompanying list, the article would merely an advertisement of reading, hoping to either bring to light or to further illustrate the benefits of reading.
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	In order to gain the undivided focus of the reader, I will once again be using 2nd person narration as I can really connect with the reader in a way that makes them feel part of the article. However, I cannot simply just use 2nd person, for I must – at times – use the first person. This will bring the article down to a far more personal level. Overall, with the two narrative voices combined, I will be creating a personal piece that also connects with the audience directly.
Register (informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	Once I have moved onto my 2nd article, I will have shifted the formality so that it is much more formal than my previous article, but not as formal as what my next article needs to be. In order to reach this medium level of formality, I will refrain from using written prosodic features and fillers. However, I will continue to use elision as a form of colloquialism, and this should hopefully enable me to reach a kind of half-way point with the register. Again, understanding that my audience will be local, I will refrain completely from using taboo language. Offensive language could be detrimental to the reader’s appreciation of my magazine.
Stylistics (repetition, strong verbs, adjectives, alliteration, similes, metaphors, sentencing, rhythm)	I shall use metaphors to show the reader that reading is the food of writers because it allows them to pick up on writing styles that are different to their own. I shall use imperatives and interrogatives to vary the structure of the sentencing, but while doing this, I must ensure that my syntax is not elongated to the extent where my audience would grow exasperated with reading. Thus I would be using parataxis to concisely convey my ideas. However, this does not necessarily mean that I must be using parataxis at all times; variation is key. This article, would include more of a balance between paratactic and hypotactic syntaxes.
Tone of address (hectoring, sarcastic, ‘matey’, ironic, etc)	To begin with, the tone of address is incredibly serious which leads the audience into thinking that reading is a subject of great importance. Then, my tone of address will become far more encouraging, as though I desperately want the reader to read these books. With a calm and encouraging tone of address, it may be made far easier for me to convince them that these books are a must for their reading list.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	The structure of the discourse should begin with my talking about how beneficial it can be for a writer to read. This paragraph must remain short for I do not want my audience to find themselves growing bored because they are just reading about the importance of reading. Then I shall jump straight in to describing my first book and shall work systematically through each of the next 4 books. The first paragraph shall include the importance of reading, while the second will focus on what reading can do for a writer, including a description of the first book. The next paragraph will be shorter and shall mention the second book. The next paragraph will be a description of books three and four, while the last includes book number five and that is where my article will conclude. Because of a limited word count, the pace shall move quite quickly. This is beneficial for the reader though as it would mean they are not reading what seems like an endless article about reading.