Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Translating Registers

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+John+1&version=NIV

 It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love. 

It hath thou given I much pleasure to seek thou children walking in thy truth, as thou O Lord commanded thee. To seek thou dear lady, I shall not begin to write as to command thee, but to remain as it has always been. All I ask of thou is to continueth to love thee. And as thou love, we walk without sins to please his commands. As thy have heard from thou start, O Lord's command is that thou will seek to walk in love.

From Formal to Frozen.

Thursday, 5 September 2013

Styles of Effective Text

Travel Blog:
The first text I found was a travel blog. I found this writing style effective because I liked the headings as a layout. It meant that you could specify the parts that you found interesting and read those parts. I also liked how the language was persuasive and detailed. I think this made you a lot more likely to take the articles advice.

Film Review:
The second text I found was a review. I found this style effective as it had an informal edge. I liked this as it made the article more relatable and added more opinion to the review so you were likely to take on board what it was saying. In addition, I thought the writing style was effective as it used similies and metaphors to compare to other films that you may have previously watched and you were able to form your own opinion.
BBC news article:

I thought this article was effective as the tone of the article reflected the seriousness of the issue in hand. It used a lot of terminology and statistics which made the style more factual and made you believe that what you were reading was reliable. The writing style was made up of many short paragraphs which could have the effect of the reader not losing interest.