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Writing and Barking Blondes Essay

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Intro: This essay will investigate and explore the similarities and differences between the linguistic and presentational techniques used to have an effect on the reader used in two articles with the shared topic of pets. The first article is by two women who call themselves 'Barking Blondes', the use of the word 'Barking' having two meanings: one relating to the sound dogs make and secondly referring to madness. This may be because they are slightly eccentric dog lovers. The formal online newspaper blog article is called 'Dealing with the death of a pet', and it informs, advises and entertains the two audiences of pet lovers and non-pet lovers; non pet lovers simply just finding it entertaining to read about the extremities that …show more content…

Chris Pascoe also uses an anecdote in his article on his job as a cat sitter, ‘I saw a fellow cat sitter parked in a neighbours drive recently’. Similarly to the Barking Blondes article the pronoun ‘I’ builds a relationship with the reader as it feels like the writer is telling the reader his personal memories, and the noun ‘fellow’ creates a sense of community as the word means someone in the same group. The use of the phrase ‘fellow cat sitter’ may have also been used as a way of the writer making himself feel better about his somewhat ridiculous job with the fact that he is not the only person who has chosen ‘cat sitting’ as a career. Even though both texts use a pronoun and create a sense of community for the animal lover audience in both quotes, the ways in which they produce an effect from the reader are different. The ‘Cat Sitter’ article uses the pronoun ‘I’, which makes the article self-indulgent, and makes the reader think that the writer is letting them in on his personal life and job, which as you read on becomes apparent that it is not as interesting as made out. Unlike the ‘Barking Blondes’ article that uses ‘we’, which connects to the reader in a more communal way.
Language para 2: One factor in both articles that will always have a positive effect on a

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