Example Scrapbook Entries

You might want to take photos or screenshots of your work and upload those as JPEG files with your annotations and comments.

Text 1: A packet of the popular cheesy snack "Quavers"

Alternatively, you could link to texts you find interesting and organise your comments underneath the link:

Text 2: A description of the ride 'Nemesis' from the Alton Towers website.

Audience: People intending to visit Alton Towers, age range of 15-40 (?) Perhaps predominantly male.
Purpose: To inform readers of the features of Nemesis. This text has a secondary purpose to persuade us to visit Alton Towers
Format: It's a page from the Alton Towers website.
Interesting Language Features: Use of "stats" to seem informal but also to give quick, at-a-glance information about the ride for its readers. Use of the rule of three "one of the most heart-pounding, exciting and exhilarating rides" to entice readers with positive adjectives and impressions. It also opens with a rhetorical question "are you ready to meet your nemesis?", almost as a challenge to those readers who are brave enough to go on this ride. The name of the ride "Nemesis" is also interesting - it means an enemy, which again sets up the idea that this is a ride that needs to be "defeated" in some way.
How technology has influenced this text: As it's on a website, the text has links to "Media Gallery" and "Reviews", allowing a reader instant access to other people's opinions and different ways of viewing Nemesis. The bottom of the page also contains links to purchasing tickets, reinforcing the text's secondary purpose of trying to persuade the audience to visit Alton Towers. It's also able to embed video, meaning that this text can use different types of media to interact with its audience.

Or, you could copy and paste your texts into the body of the blog posts themselves and then publish your comments.

Text 3: The scrolling credits from the opening of the film 'Star Wars'

It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a
hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic
Empire.
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the
Empire's ultimate weapon, the Death Star, an armored space station
with enough power to destroy an entire planet.
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races home
aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her
people and restore freedom to the galaxy...


Audience: Cinema-goers, fans of sci-fi. Possibly teenage boys due to the content of the film itself.
Purpose: To set the scene and the story in motion - to provide background information to the people watching the film!
Format: Scrolling credits
Interesting Language Features: Exciting choices of verbs and adjectives to make the story sound exciting and fast-paced, such as "races" "striking" and "ultimate weapon". The use of ellipsis "..." leaves it on a cliffhanger to hook the audience. It also gives us information on the major characters, describing the Galactic Empire as "evil" and makes Princess Leia seem powerful by describing "her" starship. The use of "restore freedom" makes it clear that Leia is a good character within the film, and phrases like "enough power to destroy an entire planet" raise the stakes and set up an exciting film for the audience.
How the gender of the audience might've influence this text: The primary audience for this text is the people who would be watching the film "Star Wars" - typically male teenagers and young adults. The use of dynamic and exciting language like "steal secret plans" helps to appeal to their interest in action, and introducing a "Princess" figure who needs to be saved might also reinforce some gender stereotypes!