Genre, Audience,

Purpose and
Style
Revision Summary
GENRE

Means the form of

your text
 GENRE
Examples:

Newsletter
- bold
heading
-
presentation
devices, i.e.
boxes, pictures,
caption etc.
GENRE
Letter
-address at
top of paper
- date
- start with
‘Dear…’
- sign ‘
Yours….’
AUDIENC
E
AUDIENC
E
Who will be
reading your
text?
AUDIENC
EAdapt your text to be suitable for different
audience by:
-using the right vocabulary
- using the right words and expressions
- if writing a magazine article choose a
suitable publication

Identifying GAPS
Genre : what type of text should you be
writing?
PURPOS
E
Signal your purpose by:
- explaining why you are
writing you letter in the opening
sentence.
- explaining what your article
is about in the intro paragraph.
- stating what your newsletter
aiming to do in bold headline.
PURPOS
E
Purpose of text could
be:
- persuade
- explain
- describe
- inform
STYL
EStyle can be either
INFORMAL or FORMAL
and the tone of the text could be
for example:
chatty
detailed
serious
personal
emotional
 G.A.P.S
Genre : what type of text should you be
writing?
Audience : who will be reading your text?
Purpose : the purpose of your text, i.e. to
convince
Style : your chosen writing style i.e. ,
informal
 From looking at the picture is
immediately
gives away the genre of the
magazine.
Which portrays ‘Rock’.
This shows that its informal as its a
form of
‘expletive language’ because
she’s putting
her middle finger up to the
audience. This
is a form of swearing.

The way she is dressed is also

informal
as the title ‘Bad Girl For Life!’ fits
with
the image