Article Planning - Body Dysmorphia

Article Planning Sheet

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

Article title: Beyond the looking glass

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	Woman’s lifestyle (Body Dysmorphia). This would fall under both the real life and health section of my magazine as the article does contain a real life story; however it is a health issue that I will be giving help and advice with.
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	I am using a mix of narrative language in all my articles as the tone is chatty.
Register (informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	My language will be in a chatty and friendly tone with extended language to a certain extent. As my target audience are of high socioeconomic status and very sophisticated they would expect extended language, however as my target audience starts from 16, I will need to balance it so that they can understand it, but as my audience are of high socioeconomic status, they will be well educated and open to the use of extended language. I will not be using any taboo language as it is defiantly not appropriate for my audience.
Stylistics (repetition, strong verbs, adjectives, alliteration, similes, metaphors, sentencing, rhythm)	I will not be using much stylistics as I don’t really feel it is appropriate for my audience. I feel like stylistics would slightly ‘dumb’ them down. I will however use repetition in my Body Dysmorphia article to stress that it is a really serious issue, and how some sufferers genuinely do not believe there is anything wrong with them when they are suffering from a serious condition. I will use repetition to also stress that people need to look out for the symptoms so that the sufferers can get a diagnosis.
Tone of address (hectoring, sarcastic, ‘matey’, ironic, etc)	My tone of voice will be chatty and friendly with a trust worthy tone. It will make them feel welcome and open to me, and like I am a trustworthy friend that they can take endless advice from.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	The pace of my article will be steady, not too fast as that can sometimes be seen as ‘chavvy’, however it also won’t be too slow as that would dumb them down and as they are of a high socioeconomic status this would not be appropriate. The pace will be of a speed which is easy and quick to read, yet not too fast as because they are highly educated, they will be taking in the story and the plot.