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Charlie Brooker 1.1 audience

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  • Guardian readers
  • middle-class left-leaning politics
  • fans of Brooker
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Charlie Brooker 1.1 purpose

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micro-purpose: response to the satirical publication by Private Eye which claimed he’d asked to have the comments turned off under his online articles

  • to satirise social media negativity, technology and misogyny
  • provide social commentary, inform and entertain
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Charlie Brooker 1.1 tone

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  • expressive
  • argumentative/condemnatory
  • sardonic
  • conversational/informal
  • self-depracating
  • hyperbolic
  • veracious
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Ian Birrell 1.2 audience

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  • reader of the Independent/i
  • educated liberal/left-leaning politics
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Ian Birrell 1.2 purpose

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  • recognise recent legalisation of gay marriage
  • understand necessity for equality
  • educate readers on injustice that disabled people face
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Ian Birrell 1.2 tone

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  • inclusivity
  • frustration/anger at injustice
  • formal
  • editorial (no backup of data)
  • emotive
  • conflicted
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Oscar Wilde 2.1 audience

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  • primary audience of his lover Lord Alfred Douglas
  • secondary audience of educated fans of Wilde’s writing and history
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Oscar Wilde 2.1 purpose

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  • reflect on his life with his lover, life before prison and his experience of Reading Gaol
  • explore the meaning of identity and how he was ostracised because of his sexuality
  • criticise Victorian society’s repression of identity
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Oscar Wilde 2.1 tone

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  • anger/bitterness/injustice
  • philosophical
  • euphemistic
  • yearning
  • authentic
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Maya Angelou 2.2 audience

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  • global audience, American in particular
  • aimed at a black and female audience as it embraces her own experience and culture especially during the civil rights movement
  • fans of Angelou
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Maya Angelou 2.2 purpose

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  • to emphasise the importance of that moment with her mother in her life
  • to inform the reader of that part of her life against a backdrop of racial tension
  • to engage and inspire her audience
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Maya Angelou 2.2 tone

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  • anecdotal
  • idiomatic, juxtaposes the formal lexis surrounding her mother to suggest distance
  • sarcastic
  • nostalgic
  • feminist
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Alan Bennett 3.1 audience

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  • established author so upper-class educated audience
  • fans of his writing
  • older due to historical cultural references
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Alan Bennett 3.1 purpose

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  • reflect on his life
  • entertain
  • discuss the bereavement of his friend Richard Griffiths
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Alan Bennett 3.1 tone

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  • anecdotal
  • conversational
  • humorous/sarcastic/witty
  • engaging
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Sapper B. Neyland 3.2 audience

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  • interested in or studying history of the military, war and the human aspect of war
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Sapper B. Neyland 3.2 purpose

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  • educate and inform readers of the danger of war
  • discuss the effects of war and trauma on young soldiers
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Sapper B. Neyland 3.2 tone

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  • patriotic
  • jovial/childish
  • naive
  • retrospective
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George Scott 4.1 audience

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  • both amateur and professional cyclists
  • members of RoadCyclingUK
  • interested in cycling/adventure holidays abroad
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George Scott 4.1 purpose

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  • evaluate his experience and inform readers about the bike ride
  • entertain by explaining the ride in a hyperbolic manner
  • engage and relate to readers
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George Scott 4.1 tone

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  • informative
  • colloquial/conversational
  • authentic
  • specialised
  • positive
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Past Masters 4.2 audience

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  • interested in conspiracy theories, history and pop-culture
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Past Masters 4.2 purpose

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  • entertain
  • inform
  • Jo aims to persuade us of the existence of UFOs
  • Bob aims to provide a sceptical perspective and disprove/challenge Jo
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Past Masters 4.2 tone

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  • conversational/informal
  • rhetorical
  • enthusiastic vs sceptical
  • pseudoscientific
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Diana 5.1 audience

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  • royalists
  • fans of Diana
  • fans of Bashir
  • primary domestic UK audience, secondary global audience
  • the royal family
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Diana 5.1 purpose

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  • allows Diana to present her narrative and defend herself
  • evoke emotion and sympathy
  • criticise the royal family
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Diana 5.1 tone

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  • authentic
  • formal
  • maternal
  • sympathetic vs. interrogative
  • conversational
  • innocent
  • uncomfortable
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Obama 5.2 audience

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  • primary American studio audience, secondary nationwide audience
  • viewers of Leno’s show
  • left-wing democratic supporters
  • educated in world politics
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Obama 5.2 purpose

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  • for political and social gain, emphasises the human aspect of Obama
  • engage and entertain, late night TV
  • ease worries about embassies
  • Leno aims to flatter Obama and emphasise his personality
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Obama 5.2 tone

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  • confident
  • conversational/colloquial
  • professional/bureaucratic
  • americanised
  • self-deprecating/satirical
  • authentic
  • interrogative
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David Seidler 6.1 audience

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  • the actors, director, producers and technicians
  • cinema audience
  • royal family history fans
  • fans of Seidler’s films
  • fans of the actors e.g. Colin Firth
  • people with speech impediments
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David Seidler 6.1 purpose

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  • entertain
  • engage interest in the character/story
  • to fictionalise aspects of the royal family, create the climax of the film using tension
  • inform and educate of George VI’s struggle to overcome personal struggles
  • explore their power relationship
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David Seidler 6.1 tone

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  • Lionel is assertive, dismissive, witty, informal, authoritative, knowledgeable
  • Bertie is uncomfortable, frustrated, humiliated, in disbelief, combative
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Andrew Viner 6.2 audience

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  • fans of radio dramas
  • the performers, directors, technicians
  • intimate layout for audience of one
  • often middle-upper class
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Andrew Viner 6.2 purpose

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  • to entertain
  • create humour
  • convey relationship issues, dishonesty and explore working life
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Andrew Viner 6.2 tone

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  • comical
  • informal/colloquial
  • pathos
  • positive vs. dismissive/litotic
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Chris Rainier 7.1 audience

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  • interested in geography
  • Nat Geo readers
  • fans of Rainier
  • educated
  • American/Western
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Chris Rainier 7.1 purpose

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  • convey and intensify the sense horror caused by the tsunami
  • educate and inform of the aftermath
  • engage readers
  • focus on struggles of moving forward after natural disasters
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Chris Rainier 7.1 tone

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  • apathetic
  • detached
  • patronising/dehumanising
  • grateful
  • factual/veracious
  • educated/professional
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Jessica Read 7.2 audience

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  • domestic UK
  • readers of the Guardian, politically left-leaning
  • interested in scuba diving/adventure holiday
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Jessica Read 7.2 purpose

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  • share unique experience of surviving earthquake at it’s epicentre
  • entertain and evoke emotion
  • celebrate natural world
  • present sense of risk
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Jessica Read 7.2 tone

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  • personal
  • expertise
  • reflective
  • conversational
  • descriptive/evocative
  • passionate/appreciative
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Flemmich Webb 8.1 audience

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  • fans of boxing
  • readers of the Independent
  • interested in arts, sport and literature
  • middle class, educated
  • regular readers of Webb
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Flemmich Webb 8.1 purpose

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  • critical appraisal
  • inform and evaluate whether the book was good/bad
  • persuade reader to read the novel
  • capture themes in the novel
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Flemmich Webb 8.1 tone

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  • intelligent/evaluative/expertise
  • formal
  • authentic/trustworthy
  • positive
  • emulative
  • engaging
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Martin Hoyle 8.2 audience

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  • educated, upper-class, wealthy
  • readers of FT Weekend
  • those already watching the show
  • interested crime dramas and Scandi Noir
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Martin Hoyle 8.2 purpose

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  • critical appraisal
  • persuade readers to watch the programme
  • inform readers of key themes, characters and what his view of it is
  • entertain readers with his own descriptions
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Martin Hoyle 8.2 tone

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  • balances formal and colloquial
  • polysyllabic, expert/educated
  • persuasive
  • light-hearted/positive
  • engaging/descriptive
  • jovial/celebratory
  • introspective
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John F. Kennedy 9.1 audience

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  • primary audience of 1960s US citizens
  • international audience
  • Russia and countries involved in Cold War
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John F. Kennedy 9.1 purpose

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  • inaugural address
  • present himself as a leader in a Cold War context
  • build rapport with US public and politicians/countries
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John F. Kennedy 9.1 tone

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  • authoritative/emphatic
  • powerful
  • professional
  • formal
  • heightened
  • sympathetic
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Colonel Tim Collins 9.2 audience

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  • primary audience of soldiers
  • secondary audience of politicians, historians and journalists
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Colonel Tim Collins 9.2 purpose

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  • to motivate, unify and prepare for war
  • show the world why the UK and US invaded Iraq
  • to reassure and engage soldiers
  • to threaten Saddam Hussein
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Colonel Tim Collins 9.2 tone

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  • imperative
  • emphatic
  • serious
  • formal
  • reassuring
  • euphemistic/metaphorical
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D.H. Lawrence 10.1 audience

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  • the middle/upper-class who could travel
  • those who can’t afford to travel abroad
  • fans of D.H. Lawrence
  • mature and educated or interested in other cultures
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D.H. Lawrence 10.1 purpose

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  • inform
  • entertain
  • convey strong sense of place
  • convey the expanse of the world and travel
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D.H. Lawrence 10.1 tone

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  • passionate
  • awe-struck
  • conversational
  • engaging
  • rhetorical
  • enthusiastic/optimistic
  • spiritual
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Paul Theroux 10.2 audience

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  • interested in travelling
  • fans of Paul Theroux
  • fans of literature/Samuel Beckett
  • educated
  • international or Western audience
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Paul Theroux 10.2 purpose

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  • to inform on his experience of Paris
  • convey the bleakness of the area
  • entertain with humour and sarcasm
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Paul Theroux 10.2 tone

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  • sardonic
  • intelligent
  • hyperbolic
  • humorous
  • engaging
  • disillusioned
  • realistic

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