Key Idea: The article is the text type set most often in Paper 1. It informs, but nearly always with an angle: a view it wants the reader to accept. You show how its choices build that angle.
Text type: the article
- Headline and hook
- Narrative voice and tone
- Diction and imagery
- Structure
- Authority: data and quotes
- Direct address to the reader
Online articles add
- The image and its caption
- Subheadings
- Layout
First name the slant, then tie every choice back to it.
What do you look for before analysing an article? Its angle: the view it is pushing.
Name five article conventions. Any five of: headline, voice and tone, diction, imagery, structure, authority, direct address.
Is a photo part of your analysis? Yes. In an online article, the picture, caption and layout are choices too.
What do real guiding questions on articles often ask about? How diction and imagery, figurative language or persuasion work.