Analysis on Agreement Homework - Mr Clifford
The agreement was written to target the primary audience of the students and the secondary audience of the students parents, in order to surve the purpose to inform students of the expectations when they reach the college, its a recipirical agreement between the student and the college to provide resources each party needs to support eachother and to ensure students behaviour. It takes a formal and serious tone with a high register , in a form of a contract.
This letter is in the semantic field of education, this creates of sense of formality. This is because of the grammatical and lexical choice. Firstly , the grammatical features used throughtout this letter help create a formal and unconditional feel. The use of noun phrases , ie 'genuine concern' , the adjective genuine modifiers the noun which shows that the writer is showing real concern for the students education. Another example, ' careful and comprehensive' the adjective ' careful' modifies the noun again because it demonstrates a truth and thoughtful concern from the other staff members. Another example of a noun phrase within the text is 'appropriate teaching' the modifier appropriate shows that there if thought and and care taken into the teaching which is provided.
The graphological features which occur are the layout which the letter is orchastrated in, bullet points. This was choosen ,pragmatically,to cater for the audience , the students who the writer will know that have a low attention span and will only read concise and short texts. Another graphogological feature is the bold text which key points are written in , ie ' holidays should not be taken during term time' , this clearly shows that the issue of attendance is a big issue for the school and it is crutial that the pupils attend in order fulfill their side of the argeement.
The use of 2nd person pronoun in the first paragraph , which is targetting the students , gives the letter a more personalised tone to the letter. This is completed by the common use of ' you and your' which run throughout the first half of the text. However , in the second half of the text it is aimed from the students perspective and is listing what they are agreeing to. This is illustrates by the use of ' I' within the second half , the use of 1st person pronoun shifts the responsibility of the teacher to the student , which crates a conditional contract.
The letter begins by using a declarative sentence which gives a sense of formality and sets a high register for the rest of the text. Within the first sentence the lexical choice of 'discussed' is used , this creates a thought that there has been discussion and thought on the topic of the requirements which are needed to be met. Also , in the second half of the text the lexis of ' respect' is repeated at few times throughout the second half of the agreement, this is because it has its own connonatations of respect and is hard to quantitfy.
The graphological features which occur are the layout which the letter is orchastrated in, bullet points. This was choosen ,pragmatically,to cater for the audience , the students who the writer will know that have a low attention span and will only read concise and short texts. Another graphogological feature is the bold text which key points are written in , ie ' holidays should not be taken during term time' , this clearly shows that the issue of attendance is a big issue for the school and it is crutial that the pupils attend in order fulfill their side of the argeement.
The use of 2nd person pronoun in the first paragraph , which is targetting the students , gives the letter a more personalised tone to the letter. This is completed by the common use of ' you and your' which run throughout the first half of the text. However , in the second half of the text it is aimed from the students perspective and is listing what they are agreeing to. This is illustrates by the use of ' I' within the second half , the use of 1st person pronoun shifts the responsibility of the teacher to the student , which crates a conditional contract.
The letter begins by using a declarative sentence which gives a sense of formality and sets a high register for the rest of the text. Within the first sentence the lexical choice of 'discussed' is used , this creates a thought that there has been discussion and thought on the topic of the requirements which are needed to be met. Also , in the second half of the text the lexis of ' respect' is repeated at few times throughout the second half of the agreement, this is because it has its own connonatations of respect and is hard to quantitfy.
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