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Second Generasians

The text Second Generasians is an article from 2004.

The topic for the text is immigration and integration. It deals among other things with the identity crisis that second generations of Asian immigrants experience.

The writer reflects on his own experiences on immigration, and on what he has observed from other immigrants.

Writer or Speaker

1. What is the writers background? Consider age, gender, education, occupation, religious or political point of view or other important characteristics. These questions are especially important in connection with source criticism.

He i 47 years old, and he comes from Pakistan. received an education at  University of Manchester. He emigrated to Britain in May 1974 with his mother, older brother and sister to join their father Mohammed Manzoor who had left Pakistan in 1963 to find work.

2. Does the writer use ethos? In other words, does the writer use his or her social, economic or political status with the audience to try to convince the them about something or to persuade them to do something? How?

The writer use ethos in the article. The writer is trustworthy because he uses his own experiences. Fx his dual identity. He also uses pathos. Here  is an example of pathos: “My father arrived in Britain 40 years ago. He left Pakistan, where his wife and young family remained, and travelled more than 6.000 kilometers to a cold, wet land full of pink strangers who spoke a different language”. He uses many negatively charged adjectives, which has the effect on the reader that you get sympathy for the father.

Language and Presentation

2. Does the writer appeal to pathos? If so, find examples in the text.

He appeals to pathos, when he describes how his father moved to a completely new country with a totally different culture and filled with strangers.

Circumstances

1. What occasion has caused the writer to produce this text?

There is a lot of discussion on the refugee crisis in Europe, and how refugees and immigrants should adapt to  the new country and society.
Also the fact that it has become cool to be Asian.

Intention

The writer has written the text “Second Generasian” for immigrants to remember where they come from. Of course you have to integrate into your new country but you shouldn’t forget who you are and where you are from.

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Type of text.

The text is an feature article.

What is the medium? Quality newspaper, tabloid newspaper, blog, magazine, company or organisational website, textbook, YouTube, or something else?

The medium is a magazine, called Spotlight.

3. What is the theme/topic/subject?

The subject is the different generations and integration. It is also about being a outsider, and how to segregate into a new society.

Writer or Speaker

1. What is the writer s background? Consider age, gender, education, occupation, religious or political point of view or other important characteristics. These questions are especially important in connection with source criticism.

The writer is from Pakistan. His father arrived in Britain 40 years ago as an immigrant.He is a Muslim from Pakistan. He has a job in the media, and works for Channel 4. He also writes for the British newspapers.

2. Does the writer use ethos? In other words, does the writer use his or her social, economic or political status with the audience to try to convince the them about something or to persuade them to do something? How?

The writer appeals to ethos by referring to his own experience./family.He tells about how his father integrated to Britain, to get better job opportunities. “My father arrived in Britain 40 years ago.”

Language and Presentation

1. Does the writer appeal to logos? If so, find examples in the text. yes

2. Does the writer appeal to pathos? If so, find examples in the text.

He use pathos when he tells about how his father came to Britain “ he travelled more than 6000 kilometers to a cold, wet land full of pink strangers, who spoke a different language”

3. How is the text structured? Is there a coherent overall structure? Is the theme introduced at the beginning and then elaborated on? Is there a conclusion at the end?

What is characteristic of the tone and style?

7. Do any of the words have positive or negative connotations?

8. Sound effects: are there examples of alliteration or assonance?

9. Is imagery implied? Is symbolism? Are there examples of metaphor, simile or personification?

10. Does the language belong to a certain dialect or sociolect?

12. Are therse any references to specific topics, places or people?

He references a lot to himself and his father

13. What arguments are used? Are they weak or strong?

14. Are there illustrations? If yes, what kind and what is the relationship

between illustration and text?

15. Is the presentation balanced and fair, or is it biased?

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Second Generasians

Type of text:

News article

Theme?

Integration and immigrants

Writer's background

The writer is a second generasian himself. He is born in Pakistan but raised in England. He was only three years old, when he came to GB in 1974. His father travelled to Britain 40 years ago as an immigrant to get a better life. The writer worked very hard to fit into the community and get results which could provide him a good job and life. He was lucky enough to end up as a successful journalist, working both in  media and papers.

Reader´s background

He appeals to other immigrants but also common Brits. He wants to show the difficulties of moving to another country with a different culture and values. The writer tries to explain how to find a balance between being integrated but still remembering their indigenous heritage.

Language and presentations

The writer mainly uses ethos and pathos to appeal to the readers.
Every time the writer appeals to the reader’s emotions(pathos) he also uses ethos, because he uses his own life and experiences to emphasize the message in the text.

The text is structured with a coherent story about his father and himself. In the start he tells about his father´s concerns about immigrants forgetting their culture, and at the end he comes up with his own similar point of view.

The text has a conclusion, which is the importance of not forgetting your past, because it contributes to who you become.

The language is neutral.

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Analysis of a non fiction text

Type of text:

News article/ Newspaper

Immigrants and assimilation to the UK

Writer

His father moved from Pakistan to the Great Britain to work. A few years later, the rest of the family joined him in the UK. He uses a lot of his own experience and a lot of Ethos. “My father was just one of thousands of immigrants from the Commonwealth…”

Language and Presentation

He also uses a lot of Pathos with a personal angle, when he is describing his childhood. “I tried to be a good son, and mostly i was”

He also uses logos when he´s describing why the immigrants comes to the UK

“The immigrants were invited for economic reasons, and it was from an economic standpoint that the new arrivals viewed their new home”

The text is in some places a bit colloquial (hverdagsagtigt) but overall a formal language. He uses a lot of positive words.

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Type of text

1. What type of text is it? Is the text an essay, news article, feature article, speech, advertisement, letter to the editor, interview, or something else?

newspaper article.

2. What is the medium? Quality newspaper, tabloid newspaper, blog, magazine, company or organisational website, textbook, YouTube, or something else?

Quality newspaper

3. What is the theme/topic/subject?

The theme of the article is immigration and it is about how to become a part of Britain without forgetting about the past and your forefathers. (your own culture and family).

The topic is about a family moving from other countries to work and adapting to  their new society, It shows the difference between the three generations of immigrants. The first generation not being completely Britons still holding on to their culture and their fear that their chlildren would forget about their roots. The second genration is part of the British culture too. They have influences both from  the British and Asian cultures.  They do not feel completely British or Pakistani. The third generation are more confident not afraid to express their Asian roots.  They are also a part of British culture and they do not have a strong if any to their parents´ or grandparents´home country.

Language and Presentation

1. Does the writer appeal to logos? If so, find examples in the text.

The writer appeals to logos sometimes. He tries to appeal to our intelligence, by presenting some reasonable facts.

“The immigrants were invited for economic reasons… ”

2. Does the writer appeal to pathos? If so, find examples in the text.

Pathos is one of the more central appeals. He uses his own story to appeal to the reader’s feelings.

“He left Pakistan, where his wife and young family remained, and travelled more than 6,000 kilometres to a cold, wet land full of pink strangers who spoke a different language”. (p.135)

We gain sympathy for his father.

3. How is the text structured? Is there a coherent overall structure? Is the theme introduced at the beginning and then elaborated on? Is there a conclusion at the end?

The text is structured as an article. He starts by making a small introduction and afterwards he starts presenting his own story as an immigrant. In his story he starts by telling what happened to the whole family and then slowly he starts to bring himself more and more in to the story.

In the end he actually presents the problem of immigration. He worries that the immigration might be too good.
He has also structured it by first writing about the first generation immigrants and then second and lastly the third generation immigrants.
4. Is the vocabulary concrete (with many concrete nouns, such as table, chair, house) or abstract (with many abstract nouns, such as problem, problem-solving, science, liberty, human rights), colloquial (hverdagsagtig), formal or neutral? Is there a use of or a lack of adjectives and adverbs, and what is the effect? Are specific words or phrases repeated, and if so, what is the effect?

It is an overall formal language

5. Is there anything characteristic about punctuation or word order? (When the writer deliberately used unusual punctuation or word order, it is often to draw the reader’s attention to that point or to emphasise the point.)

6. What is characteristic of the tone and style?
The tone is very calm

10. It’s a story about him and other immigrants settling in Britain as a second generation immigrant

12. Immigrant - the difficult part - your identity

13. How hard and difficult it is to settle as an immigrant, and feel a part of the community

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Writer or Speaker

Sometimes we know who the sender is, or we can infer who it is, or we can carry out online research to find out.

1. What is the writer s background? Consider age, gender, education, occupation, religious or political point of view or other important characteristics. These questions are especially important in connection with source criticism.

Male, work on television. From Pakistan  - he fasted every year, when the Ramadan came around. During religious festivals, he would go to mosque with his father and brother and follow others in praying

2. Does the writer use ethos? In other words, does the writer use his or her social, economic or political status with the audience to try to convince the them about something or to persuade them to do something? How?

Trying to tell how it is to be a first, second and third generation immigrant i Briitian. He’s talking about his experience, he had being a second generation immigrant

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Type of Text

1. What type of text is it? Is the text an essay, news article, feature article, speech, advertisement, letter to the editor, interview, or something else?

The text is an article

2. What is the medium? Quality newspaper, tabloid newspaper, blog, magazine, company or organisational website, textbook, YouTube, or something else?

The medium is a newspaper, because the text is an article.

3. What is the theme/topic/subject?

The theme/subject is “Asians in Britain”, and how their identity has developed. The article tells about how they view themselves and the differences through the generations.

Writer or Speaker

1. What is the writer´s background? Consider age, gender, education, occupation, religious or political point of view or other important characteristics. These questions are especially important in connection with source criticism.

The writer is a man called Manzoo from Pakistan. He arrived to Britain as a kid with his whole family. Today he lives and works in Britain. Even Though he lives in a non-religious country he still tries to remain in touch with his religious background.

Reader or Audience

What is the reader's background? Consider age, gender, education…

Language and Presentation

1. Does the writer appeal to logos? If so, find examples in the text.

2. Does the writer appeal to pathos? If so, find examples in the text.

The writer uses pathos, when he tells about his family and his own relations. He uses his father's generation as an example to show how the circumstances were at that time with the immigrants.

3. Does the writer appeal to ethos? If so, find examples in the text.

The writer does use ethos the way he uses himself as an example of what is going on. It has a high credibility because he and his family has experienced it themselves.

3. How is the text structured? Is there a coherent overall structure? Is the theme introduced at the beginning and then elaborated on? Is there a conclusion at the end?

In the beginning he tells how the circumstances is about the Asians in Britain. He tells that it is cool to be an Asian in Britain.

In the end he concludes how it works, that the first generation knew that they were not British and the second generations wish they were British but "were not fully accepted" and the third generations are born into the English society and  have no connection to their parents´ home country.