Article plan- 5 steps to happiness

Article Planning Sheet- 5 steps of happiness

Plan the language use of the primary code of your article in the box below.

Article target audience:

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	This article will be a how-to magazine that will consist of easy steps by step instructions to a promised success. Which will have images of proved changes due to the steps pointed out.
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	The narrative voice for this magazine will be 1st and 2nd person, I think this is appropriate so that the readers and understand and relate better to what is being said.
Register (informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	For this article I will use both informal and formal language. This is because I will be using colloquial language but I will write the article so that it will inform the target audience about diets etc.
Stylistics (repetition, strong verbs, adjectives, alliteration, similes, metaphors, sentencing, rhythm)	I will use rhetorical questions on my article, which will entice the reader to finish the article and take on some of the steps pointed out. The rhetorical questions will be used as prompts so the target audience will want to follow the steps.
Tone of address (hectoring, sarcastic, ‘matey’, ironic, etc)	The tone of the address will be quite positive as it purpose is to make the target audience feel that the steps are possible and that it is worth attempting. Obviously people could take the steps quite serious but the colloquial language may lesser the seriousness.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	The structure of the article will be medium paced, due to having only 5 steps there won’t be a large amount of text therefore this gives the readers time to understand and think about the steps in depth. This therefore lets them decide whether the steps are going to be assessable for them to complete. There will be 5 paragraphs as there will be one to each step and this will help the article look less text heavy which in affect will increase the amount of readers. As stereotypically large amounts of text may put the target audience off due to a shorter attention span.