The controversial Issue I had chosen was Climate change.
The person voicing their opinion in blog post 1 was a sixteen year old female who was extremely interested in the natural world, for this person's voice I used some of my own views on the topic chosen as well as adding some facts I had found from a website and some I already knew of. (Website linked in bibliography)
To make this post more realistic I used facts and statistics such as ''The 2010 Anderegg study found that 97-98% of publishers that are active in the field of climate research agree that human activity is primarily responsible for climate change.'' This makes the character seem knowledgeable and helps to portray their personality as a person who likes to validate their opinion with evidence. At the end of her post she lists a number of ways people can help to stop climate change ''There is so much you can do to save this world we live in, from small tasks such as recycling and...'' This was used to show how enthusiastic she is to make a change and better the world by reducing the damage humans cause on a daily basis. This person comes across as someone who is interested in science and how the earth works, this is shown by how much evidence she uses and how she speaks with conviction ''As the most self aware and knowledgeable organisms on this planet we must act now if we are ever going to save our precious planet.''. When describing the amount of evidence there is to support her point she says ''Humans have caused climate change and there is an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence to say so.'' The adjective ''overwhelming'' is very strong here as not only does it describe the amount of reasons we have caused pollution and what it has done to our earth, but i feel that it also describes the amount of pollution in the atmosphere as if it is choking our planet of any naturally produced gasses which help to keep the ecosystem going as we pump unnatural fossil fuels into it by burning oil and coal at an ''overwhelming'' rate.
The target audience of this post is people who are unsure about the causes of climate change and those who wish to find out what they can help to stop it. The audience could also be people who disagree with humans being blamed for climate change as the writer could be trying to convince them otherwise. The reader could find this post by looking up the title of the blog post or typing into Google (other search engines available) a sentence or words that are in this blog post, the viewer may already follow the blog so could also find it by looking in their reading list on Blogger.
The person voicing their opinion in blog post 2 was a twenty year old male who was built upon the stereotype set by older people on the way young people speak and behave, he uses slang when speaking and it's rather than it is.
The reason he is writing about this topic is expressed in his first sentence ''I'm fed up of climate change being blamed on us for no reason.'' This suggests to the audience that he has seen/heard a lot of accusations that humans are responsible for the current state of the earth and that he does not agree with what has been said. This person uses several techniques in their post such as rhetorical questions, ''so why be bothered?'' This makes this person seem like a social individual however it could also come across as if they have a fairly care free approach to life. Another reason he uses rhetorical questions often within this post could be because he feels as if the points he is making are extremely obvious and that everybody should know the fact he is stating is blatantly true. To improve the sense of personality to fit the stereotype I have used some slang words such as ''fink'' and ''don't'' this conveys their idiolect in a casual light, fitting them to this stereotype created by the older generation. Considering blog post 2 is about how this person disagrees with how humans are being 'blamed' for climate change he knows a lot of facts about it, this suggests that this person wanted to prove himself with facts and statistics such as ''the temperature of the earth has been within the -/+5 °f range of the past 3,000 ish years'' meaning he may feel like people would not take him seriously if he could not prove any points he made with scientific evidence.
The target audience of this post is anyone who is unsure of the causes of climate change or someone who believes that climate change is happening because of the human race. The audience could find this blog post by typing in the title of the post into Google (other search engines are available) or by typing in words or sentences which are in the blog post into the search engine, alternatively if the reader follows the blog by person 2 it will be reachable via the reading list on blogger. Blog 2 is also a lot shorter than blog 1 this may be due to the fact that they are not as enthusiastic as person 1 is about this topic.
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Edited 13/10/15
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