How Are Teenagers Presented In The Magazine Article The Good News About Teenagers?

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 How Are Teenagers Presented In The Magazine Article “The Good News About Teenagers”?

This article is written by Laurie Graham, a writer by profession and a mother of teenagers. The article is featured in a women’s magazine and seems to be aimed at parents (or soon to be parents) of teens. Graham’s own experience of being a mother means that she draws on personal experience, which means that readers are more likely to believe her and be convinced that there are good things about teens.

The main purpose of the article is to explain that teenagers and teen years aren’t bad. Graham attempts to explain this through much humor, visual devices, and personal experience.

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The way in which the article is set out is visually appealing. The Teen Talk headline is smaller than the main headline, but is in bold and capitalised. The main headline contains different sized fonts, to emphasize certain words, especially the words ‘Good News’. Also, the first sentence of each paragraph is bolder and underlined; this is to capture the attention of the readers. The cartoon is in the centred in the middle of the article to create a visual break in the text, and it adds an interesting layout to the article. Also, each paragraph is columnised and sentences ...

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The Quality of Written Communication is fine. Whilst no hugely challenging lexis is used, and a limited range of linguistics-exclusive lexes are mentioned, the candidate does not make any errors in their spelling, grammar or punctuation - not noticeable ones at least, so it is likely the candidate will receive all QWC marks available for this answer.

The Level of Analysis is good for the majority, but could be even better should the recommendations above be taken into account. On the plus side (and this is by no means a bad essay) the candidate makes a good, if a little short, recognition of the intended audience and there is a partially implicit-explicit explanation of how the layout and presentation of the article is suited to the audience. Also recognised is the difficulty of the topic, and so the bright and colourful layout helps the information as noted here. The conclusion however is a large disappointment, simply because' it's not there. Conclusions, by definitions, must conclude the analysis undertaken and consolidate the ideas into a short summary paragraph. Without them, candidate swill lose marks for essay structure even if they show adeptness in their analysis.

this is a fairly well-organised answer with some good analysis. Quite often the precision is lost with poor/few examples from the text to back up the analysis, and there are times when the candidate appears to write extensively but it actually repeating themselves, targeting different linguistic techniques used by Graham for a variety of short sentences that ultimately say the same thing with regard to getting the reader to "read on" or remain "interested in the article" etc. These should really be addressed in one, targeting the analysis at more specific example in subsequent sentences that don't take too long, because you get no marks for repeating yourself and this is the candidate's main downfall. Saying a lot about a little is the key to high grades, but the analysis must reach to various points and not dissipate all focus on a single point of reader attention.