First off, here's a new and exciting graphic of the mode continuum:
Secondly, here's a list of past text pairings for Language and Mode:
Previous ENGA1 texts
Jan 2009:
Online advert/webpage for dating tips
Phone conversation transcript between two secret lovers
May 2009:
Written version of Green Party speech
Printed guidance about avoiding wasteful use of photocopiers
Jan 2010:
Message board posts about graffiti
Online Guardian article about Banksy
May 2010
Transcript of radio interview at Glastonbury
Article from The Observer’s television listings section
Jan 2011
Transcript of part of a conversation about children’s behaviour
Webpage giving advice about bringing up children.
Future exam papers? Some suggestions:
- written mode letters with blended mode emails/text messages/MSN “conversation” (like the sample stuff in the AQA A text book)
- spoken conversation between 3+ participants and online conversation
- spoken commentary versus written match report (or blended mode web commentary)
- monologue of person telling anecdote and narrative in written form
- written text that uses features of spoken mode to create “relationship” with reader
