Assessment
Tips
Before you start writing your Higher Level essay, you will need a strategy or "game plan." The list of tips below offers you some helpful ideas to get you thinking, writing, and editing. In brief you...
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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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- Noun Phrase Free
A word or group of words with a noun at its head (i.e. the noun is the essential word), often with added information in the form of modifiers. Premodifiers precede the head, and post-modifiers follow...
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- Notifications
While the concept of notifications may seem simple, it is very important in our efforts to understand the type of text known as 'website'. In traditional media, if you want to find out something, such...
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- Nominalisation
Nominalisation is a process in which a verb or verb group is transformed into a noun. Nominalisation is a frequent feature in media texts in which it may be advantageous or desirable to omit the agent...
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- Newsworthiness
What makes a story newsworthy? Every editor-in-chief has a different opinion on this matter. Generally speaking however, there seem to be three reasons why a story is deemed 'newsworthy'. Although they...
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- Modality Free
Modality is the linguistics of judgment. It is the the way in which writers express attitudes towards their subject matter. and towards their addresses. Modality has a range of functions in language,...
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- Metonymy Free
Metonymy is the act of referring to a concept not by its name, but by something intimately associated with it. For example when journalists refer to "Washington's response," they mean the political response...
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- Metaphor
Metaphor is the comparison of two concepts through language, often done by using the verb 'to be'. Metaphor is often seen as a literary device used by poets. Metaphors, however, can be found in every...
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- Mash up
Mash ups are online texts, usually short films, that copy content from an original source and alter it to some extent to give it new meaning. These are texts that borrow from and build on other texts....