Article Plan - Jumpers for Goalposts

Article Planning Sheet

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

Article target audience: Young Teenagers

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	This type of article is a human interest article, its purpose is to get people thinking about what it is about the beautiful game that attracts us and why you love it so much. I want them to wonder why they started playing football and how they got in to football. I want them to be drawn in to the many different ways you can get in to sport.
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	It will be second narrative as I think this article can relate to a lot of young lads out there so if I address them, then they will be more interested, and referring to them as “you” may draw them in and it means that I can write the article as if I explaining the article to them.
Register (informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	It will be mostly informal but not too informal, due to the fact the if its too informal the secondary target audience of the magazine will not be too happy. But if its too formal my primary audience may think its too boring and serious. I will use some small uses of colloquial language and local dialect so the audience feels more at home and more comfortable.
Stylistics (repetition, strong verbs, adjectives, alliteration, similes, metaphors, sentencing, rhythm)	There will be lots of repetition as I will be reiterating my point to try and put it across, I will use adjectives to try and describe the fun of starting football young.
Tone of address (hectoring, sarcastic, ‘matey’, ironic, etc)	It will be ‘matey’ as I want my article to feel comfortable and so that they are able to find it funny but interesting and have a laugh, not too serious as young lads wont enjoy that.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	The pace will be short sentences in rather large paragraphs to give it some variety, and it will have structure as I don’t want it to look too shabby and disorganised, but I don’t want it to look too serious.