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Personalization
As we deconstruct websites and understand how they target specific audiences, it is important to see how many sites rely on personalizaton. Creating an account, logging on or editing a profile page are...
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Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia is a stylistc device that refers to words that sound like what they represent. 'Swish' or 'snap' are good examples of onomatopoeia. The very sound of these words imitates the actions that...
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Appeal to fear
In advertisements, speeches or even newpaper articles we see that writers and speakers appeal to their audience's sense of fear. If you can make people scared, then they will believe or buy anything....
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What's in a name?
The names we use to designate groups can be politically charged and ideologically motivated. Naming can be a way of controlling a group. By assuming that every member shares the same common traits, or...
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Writing rationales
Although the rationale only counts for 2 of the 20 marks for the written task, the success of your written task largely depends on it. On this page, we suggest which points to include in a rational....
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Language and social relations Free
One of the 'suggested topics' from the IB Language A: Language and Literature guide for Part 1 is 'language and social relations'. As we look at how language is used in various contexts, we cannot avoid...
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Language and knowledge
One of the suggested topics from the Language A: Language and Literature guide is 'language and knowledge'. Here we ask ourselves how people use language, such as jargon, to express their knowledge of...
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Translation
One of the suggested topics from the Language A: Language and Literature guide is 'translation'. As we study various contexts of the Anglophone world, it is interesting to look at how texts are translated....
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Language and communities Free
One of the suggested topics from the Language A: Language and Literature guide is 'language and communities'. As we look at how language is used in various contexts, we see that people express allegiance...
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Language and the individual Free
One of the suggested topics in the Language A: Language and Literature guide is 'language and the individual'. For this topic we are concerned with how an individual identity is constructed through language....