NHS web page - Sore throats by https://padlet.com/taraclarke/rvgdrxdqc8qnp99w en-us 2021-03-10 10:10:38 UTC 2021-03-11 11:06:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f337.png GAMP introduction taraclarke https://padlet.com/taraclarke/rvgdrxdqc8qnp99w/wish/1297247111 Text A is a webpage from the NHS.uk website. It is aimed at young people/adults who are suffering with a sore throat, or parents who have children that have a sore throat. The primary purpose of the text is to inform about home remedies that will help, and to also offer advise on how to 'soothe' a sore throat. The secondary purpose is to reassure people that sore throats are a common illness, and prevent them from coming in to GP surgeries when it is not necessary. ]]> 2021-03-11 10:09:22 UTC https://padlet.com/taraclarke/rvgdrxdqc8qnp99w/wish/1297247111 Sentence forms & types - Lily https://padlet.com/taraclarke/rvgdrxdqc8qnp99w/wish/1297280309 Text A includes multiple examples of simple sentences “rest” “you often get sore throats” and compound sentences such as “eat cool or soft foods”. The text utilises mainly simple and compound sentences as that is the simplest way to provide instructions as it is easy and quick to read and follow. There are very few examples of complex sentence structure as independent clauses and dependent clauses are usually unnecessary in the context of a text like this - providing instructions for those with a sore throat. “You have a weekend immune system - for example because pop diabetes or chemotherapy”. The complex sentence structure within this text is only used when giving an example as to extraneous circumstances of having a sore throat. Most of the sentences are declaratives as there is no need for questions, emotion or persuasion. 

]]> 2021-03-11 10:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/taraclarke/rvgdrxdqc8qnp99w/wish/1297280309 Word class types- adjectives- Maisy Baines https://padlet.com/taraclarke/rvgdrxdqc8qnp99w/wish/1297286025 Text A uses desriptive adjectives such as ‘soft’ and cool’ to describe ideal food items in order to provide clear information on what is suitable to eat whilst having a sore throat. This description helps to one of the texts main purposes which is to give advice to young adults or parents  who are suffering from a sore throat. This description and information is from an NHS website which is a reputable location to find medical care, so, the text is represented as trustworthy and genuine. Furthermore, the description of which foods to eat to help soothe your sore throat is linked to the secondary purpose which is to reassure the adults that a sore throat is not a serious illness and can therefore be treated at home by soothing it yourself with ‘soft food’ or ‘cool food’ instead of going to the doctors which ultimately avoids people going to the doctors for unnecessary reasons.]]> 2021-03-11 10:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/taraclarke/rvgdrxdqc8qnp99w/wish/1297286025 Field Specific Lexis https://padlet.com/taraclarke/rvgdrxdqc8qnp99w/wish/1297368992 Text A uses a range of lexical fields to explain to their directed audience how to help a sore throat. The text producer uses the descriptive adjectives "cool" and "soft" when explaining to "eat cool and soft drinks". This allows the text reciever to understand what diet to maintain as a preventative towards worsening their throat. However, the text also sticks closely towards symptoms and how to notice if it is just a sore throat. The text producer uses negative connotations of the dynamic verb "swollen" and evaluative adjective "bad" when describing symptoms as being a "bad cough" and "swollen neck glands". This helps conclude a diagnosis,  achieveing the texts purpose of informing  through lexical fields by evaluating the basic steps forward in order to help its audience 

Furthermore, Text A bullet points ways in which to gargle water. Through use of the descriptive adjective "relieve" and dynamic verb "discomfort" the text producer avoids a double negative and infact provides ways in which you can help with any pain by explaining the advantages of gargling water in the strap line "to help relieve the pain and discomfort of a sore throat you can...". Noticeably this is easy for an audience to understand and therefore achieves the texts purpose through lexis by providing instructed methods for the audience that are easily self-explanatory, avoiding any confusion. 

]]> 2021-03-11 10:53:50 UTC https://padlet.com/taraclarke/rvgdrxdqc8qnp99w/wish/1297368992 Graphology- Katie Rawson https://padlet.com/taraclarke/rvgdrxdqc8qnp99w/wish/1297373448 Text A uses graphology to represent the text as sophisticated, simple and easy to read. It is portrayed like this due to the texts content being about a medical-based topic that’s quite important and that’s needed to be read easily, especially as it’s giving instructions. 
To achieve this simple factor, the text includes spaced-out, bullet point lists, so that each step to the instructions is split up and easy to understand. The page itself includes no colour or pictures, just the standard black and white printed text, the title being in bold and a slightly bigger font size than the rest of the text. This is so the reader can easily understand what this specific page is about and when looking for the page on sore throats, it can be easily spotted. As there is no colour to the text, subtitles are also in bold and underlined to make them stand out against the rest of the text. 
The text producer uses this graphology to appeal to the texts intended audience, which is anyone with the symptoms of a sore throat who has access to the internet, and parents/ carers of those with a sore throat, by making the text layout suitable for all ages to easily understand. Keeping the pages simple with no pictures and no bright colours gets rid of any distractions, keeping the focus purely on the content of the text and nothing else. Sometimes if children or teens have medical symptoms, they can feel embarrassed to ask for an adults advice, some would rather be independent and research for themselves, so making the page layout clean and simple allows readers to not mis-interpret anything and know exactly what they are looking for. 
The graphology used fits the typical features of an online medical website, as at the top of the page there is a search bar, and columns going along the top of the website leading to different areas of the website. Also, the basic text and standard layout. 
It also achieves the main purpose, which is to inform, due to the page purely including information about sore throats and nothing else. 
]]> 2021-03-11 10:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/taraclarke/rvgdrxdqc8qnp99w/wish/1297373448 Phonological https://padlet.com/taraclarke/rvgdrxdqc8qnp99w/wish/1297387444 Phonological factors are used in the text to create a sense of understanding and keeps the reader interested. Using generic sibilance such as “soothe a sore throat” represents the text as being easily understood by all audiences and helps the reader to feel reassured that the text producers knows what they are talking about. Other phrases such as “bad breath” is a plosive by chance but makes the text interesting to read. Furthermore, the text allows the audience to feel comforted by the fact its from the NHS and keeps patients out of hospitals, keeping away an influx of something that is not likely to be severe. 

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