Wilfred Owen’s poem, Futility, is a poem about war, in which he questions whether war is right or not. War in the early 1900s was seen as a way to have glory and honour, however, Owen states all that happens… Continue Reading →

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Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes is all about nature and how nature works. In this poem, the example he uses is a hawk and its in the first person viewpoint of the hawk. The story goes from the hawk sitting… Continue Reading →

Text messaging and spoken language can be very creative in many ways. There are specific features that can be used to add creativity in a conversation and I am going to talk about them in my essay. Both text messaging… Continue Reading →

In spoken language, paralinguistic and linguistic features can add enormous amounts of creativity to a conversation. Paralinguistic features are non verbal communications that are used while having a spoken conversation for example, body language or facial expressions Linguistic features are… Continue Reading →

Introduction – Explain what I am going to talk about Say that both spoken language and text messaging are creative and say that it influences features that are in our lives today Examples: the way we communicate with each other,… Continue Reading →

Text messaging today is much closer to speaking than it is to writing. This is because people – mainly youth – prefer to write more like the way they speak, rather than writing in standard English. This suggests that when… Continue Reading →

My transcript is based on a video I made with Mark, Alex and Soren. There are many features that aren’t used in writing that are used in the video. These are called paralinguistic and linguistic features. In my transcript, Alex… Continue Reading →