Comparative Language Analysis

Reading the context/background information is important?

• True

• False

What do you address in your introduction?

• Arguments in both articles

• Background/Context + FAWCIT

• Only the first article

What do you address in your 1st body paragraph

• Both articles

• The first article

• FAWCIT

What do you address in your 2nd body paragraph

• You introduce the second article and compare it to the first

• Only article 2

• Only the image

What do you address in your 3rd body paragraph?

• Only address the first article

• Only compare the two articles again

• The image and compare it to article 1 + 2

What do you base your body paragraphs around?

• Key arguments presented in the articles

• Only persuasive techniques

• The tone of the writer

How should you structure your body paragraphs?

• There is no structure, just list persuasive techniques.

• TEEL (Topic Sentence, Explain, Evidence, Link Sentence)

• ATE (Argument, Technique, Effect)

Is your job in a comparative language analysis to state which article was most effective?

• True

• False

Is your job to analyse the language/persuasive devices and talk about their INTENDED effect on the writer's audience?

• True

• False

Does tone shift throughout an article?

• True

• False