Original Writing Commentary. The purpose of this blog is to advise young adults how to curb unhealthy eating habits not for only for weight but for confidence. I purposely chose to continue the theme of junk food

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Shanaz Pantry       A2 Unit F654 Media Language: Original Writing & Commentary

Original Writing Commentary

My creative piece is a blog, aimed at young adults who are students between the age of 16 and 20. I purposely chose this age range as young adults are adopting the social trend of buying fast food for various reasons such as: ease, quickness and cost. The audience I targeted was mainly females as they are most likely to be more conscience about their health and weight because of media pressure to conform to the ideal ‘Slim is beautiful’ concept.

The purpose of this blog is to advise young adults how to curb unhealthy eating habits not for only for weight but for confidence. I purposely chose to continue the theme of junk food as it is constantly within the media and frequently needs addressing due to the major health issues that follow because of it. I opted to make my piece multimodal, as I felt it was necessary to include both images and text to create a motivational effect to encourage them to read the blog.

Throughout the web-blog, I predominately used the first-person narrative in order to create a personal-directed appeal to the reader to enlighten them about ways to begin the process. Also by using this narrative it enabled me to generate a tone which was conversational yet friendly.

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The level of the formality is both formal yet informal at times. I purposely chose not to write the blog in a fixed style as I felt at various times the language needed to relate to the specific age range as ‘Crap’ and ‘Jotting’ is lexis belonging to the socialect of young adults. Therefore I felt by using  informal lexis I interacted with my audience through the text as it was language which is not uncommon to them .

 

In terms of linguistic features, I decided not to change the lexical field of food since I did not ...

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