Also I mimicked the reassurance factor that is present in my style model, mixing this with information and included facts made my work convincing.
I used Auxiliary verbs such as could, might, may, should and can which emphasises my assistance making the advice I give to my reader gentle being more of a guide then in their face advice. I tried to make the reader feel as if all I was trying to do is help rather then persuade them to go charity shopping until the end where I used imperatves e.g. 'Venture in, do it!', 'you do the maths'; I also used rhetorical questions e.g. 'why not?'; peachy piece of clothing for a very polite price, this is an example of assonance and the aim of this was to keep it a bit quirky.
The formality of my writing is mixed but I tried to keep it formal enough to make the reader believe I know what I'm talking about but at the same time I didn't want my writing to feel over educational more of a light read. The Lexis of my writing isn't littered with adjectives and adverbs this keeps in with my Genre and keeps it from being too sophisticated, I wasn't aiming for literary piece. I also used personal language such as 'Bad times!' which is conventional and conversational making this more personal to my audience establishing intimacy and collaboration with my audience.
I also inlcluded one word sentences, 'but this is not law. Unfortunately. ' the unfortunately being my opinion on the matter.
The tone mainly focused on positives highlighting negatives of charity shopping but coming to a positive conclusion. I used Vintage shops as an example 'Vintage shops have a lot more stock …' but after I used reasoning behind this ' I've heard of vintage shops/shop owners and ...' this turning the negative positive.
I added a anecdote about my experience with charity and vintage shops story which I feel gives it a personal touch and insight into what I'm talking about.
I used a bit of humour unlike my style model which purpose isn't humorous but I still tried to keep it 'dry' as I don't want to over use it making the advice seem more of a joke then good advice; here are some examples of humour ' rather intimidatingly stylish man', ' my girlfriend was just going to have to wait', not in your face jokes but attempts to engage the reader.