AS Language 21/9/15 writing an article

Clevernesses,

using the research you did in the computer room last Tues and this article as inspiration (and your own knowledge), write an article about how language is changing due to the way young people are using it. Post to your blog by the end of the lesson. I am doing 1-1s so bring your folder to show me all your work so far and particularly bring the initial assessment.

• try and write for the same audience as the article above does but don't plagiarise by just changing what's there a little - write about a new focus or idea using some of the same techniques (e.g. write about a particular gender or age group or social media or dialect or sociolect etc.). Really think about what the audience needs/wants/knows/expects (properly consider the GRAPE at the planning stage)
• remember what Gorman taught us about headlines, engaging the audience and surprises
• use all the conventions of that genre e.g. headline, picture/caption, byline, strapline, structure

This is the kind of directed writing you will need to do in the exam, so have a go and then you can work on the areas you find difficult as we move forward. If you are really stuck for ideas, do some more research.