Text type: the social media post
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What is a social media post (as a text type)?
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A very short, informal text built to relate and be shared quickly.
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Why is a social post so short?
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It has seconds to stop a scroll, so it works through brevity, tone and image.
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Why analyse image and caption together?
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They play off each other; the meaning is in the combination, not either alone.
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What do hashtags do in a post?
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Set a tone and tag it to a community or shared mood.
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What do emojis add?
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Tone and feeling in a tiny space — irony, warmth, humour.
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Name three social-post features.
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A short punchy caption, image+caption interplay, and hashtags/emojis.
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What is the ‘pull to engage’?
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The way a post invites a like, share, reply or tag.
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First question to ask of a social post?
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‘How does it earn a like or a share in seconds?’
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Is a post ‘too short to analyse’?
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No — the brevity is the craft; every word, emoji and hashtag is a choice.
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Common social-post analysis mistake?
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Dismissing it as too short, instead of analysing tone, image and hashtags.
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