Representations text 13.5.2
The genre of this text is a newspaper article, this article is by Jonathan freedman. This text would have been found in a physical copy of a newspaper or an online version . The audience of this text would be someone who reads the guardian often or someone who is researching into stereotypes and how people react to them. The primary purpose of the text is to entertain, this is achieved by the sarcastic undertones of the text. The use of the stereotypes add to the elements of entertainment as they are laughable, this would appeal to a mainly English and European audience, this is because we are able to laugh about the stereotypes set by people who do not live in England/ Europe. The second purpose is to inform, this is achieved through the word ''cliché'', the noun plays off the stereotype set about British people, informing the reader that the stereotype is not valid. The readers expectations of this text would be that this is a serious article due to the use of the word ''war'' in the title as this word has violent connotations. By saying the phrase ''not the whole picture'' the writer is implying that the reality is far more complicated than the stereotypes set by society. The opening word ''Brits'' is a contraction for 'Britons' This adjective may have been selected to engage the audience via the use of contraction.
Some good sense of how the text works. To improve, work harder on close analysis of key quotes using a variety of terminology to show how these specific techniques suit the GRAPE. Britons is a plural noun, not an adjective and "readers expectations" [sic] needs a possessive apostrophe. Check for these sorts of issues as accuract slips will reduce your AO1 mark. Don't blur your ideas into one paragraph, devlop each of them PEE+GRAPE.
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