Language Register: The passage can either be written in the Formal Standard English (not bombarded with contractions, free of slang, colloquialism) or Informal Standard English (usually casual or intimate; the opposite of the formal register).
What do we mean by Audience?
The audience is whom the writer or author is targeting. Who is the author targeting in the 2010 past paper "Dealing with Irrational Anger" or the "Social Networks" article?
Four types of discourse or rhetorical modes of discourse
1) Exposition 2) Argument 3) Description 4) Narration
Purpose of the types of discourse or the author
Before you determine the purpose you need to identify the discourse type. Is it exposition, argument, description or narration?
EXPOSITION: to explain or inform. (Writing in English, pages 77-78)
ARGUMENT: to convince or persuade the reader. (pages 78-79)
DESCRIPTION: to convey to the audience the sense of what a thing (a person, a scene, a feeling) looks like, sounds like, feels like, smells like or tastes like. (pages 74-75)
NARRATION: to relate to a reader a sequence of events as they happened, or a sequence of acts as they should be performed. (pages 75-76)
Sometimes writers combine the discourse types. Read more in Writing in English (page 80).
What is Text Structure?
Text structure is also known as text patterns. The expository passage can utilize one or more of the following : a) Cause and effect (causal analysis) b) comparison and contrast c) problem solving or problem solution d) description e) sequence.
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