English Today Essay Edexcel GCSE English

English Today Controlled Assessment There are many different types of non-fiction texts, varying from a newspaper article to an autobiography. In this essay I will be comparing an online newspaper article with a web page. Both texts will be on the subject of festivals. One will be on the Edinburgh Festival and the other on the Lollibop Festival. The subject of the online newspaper article is ‘The 10 best shows for kids’ at the Edinburgh festival. The purpose of the article is mostly to inform and to partly advise, as it says ‘Warning: additional characters are played by members of the audience’. In contrast, the purpose of the Lollibop Festival web page is to persuade people to visit the festival. I can come to this conclusion from the language that they use. For example, it says ‘BUY TICKETS!’ AND ‘Share with friends!’ which are both imperatives and make us feel like we have to do what it says. However, as the purpose of the online article about the Edinburgh Festival is to review, it is very different to the Lollibop Festival Web Page. The audience of the online newspaper article is parents of children aged five to thirteen. I can infer this from how the writer talks about ‘your kids’, which means that she presumes the reader is a parent (or guardian). I can infer that the article is mainly aimed at women as the image of the writer on the online article is a woman and doesn’t mention fathers or her partner which gives me the feeling that she is a single parent (she only mentions dads when they are ‘stitched up with fart noises’...). Therefore it gives me an impression that she is aiming at a mainly female audience. The Lollibop festival web page’s audience is also parents (but of age’s two to eight). Though the web page also aims at a much younger audience as well – the children. The children would use pester power (where the children have the power to pester their parents into getting them what they want!) to get their parents to take them