Article planning sheet - False faces and phoney figures

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	This article is a serious expose, due to the topic potentially being a sensitive issue within young women. This will work best for this particular article as there must be a lot of factual information. The purpose of the article is to help young adults have a better representation of themselves and to stop idolising underweight celebrities. Additionally, this will also introduce the audience to problems relating to self-esteem issues.
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	This article will be written in second person in order to speak directly to the audience and create a relationship between myself and the reader. This suits the article as this could be a sensitive issue with certain audience members, therefore a second person narrative will sound more comforting.
Register (informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	This article is written in a formal register to link with the “serious expose” style article type. Additionally, some colloquial pieces of language are included in the article, in order to create comforting and realistic connotations, mentioning aspects of people’s lives that they will be familiar with, such as low self-esteem, low confidence, body image and insecurities.
Stylistics (repetition, strong verbs, adjectives, alliteration, similes, metaphors, sentencing, rhythm)	The sentences used throughout the article are particularly lengthy, containing a lot of punctuation in order to break up the content, in comparison to a more fun and light-hearted article like Your Festival Survival Guide; this is due to the fact that this article maintains a formal and sophisticated register, in order to convey its seriousness of the topic. Additionally, the headers used are basic and short, making it clear for the audience to understand.
Tone of address (hectoring, sarcastic, ‘matey’, ironic, etc)	This article is written formally for the audience in order to correctly and clearly present the factual information and statistics needed in this article. Written in second person, this will hopefully address the audience directly, creating a larger effect on them.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	The presentation of the article is separated into clear paragraphs, breaking up each different topic; “Body image Dieting, Media Influence, Photoshop: Altering photos…And our minds?” The article begins with a header, which introduces the audience to our media influences and how celebrities, models, actors etc are creating an “ideal” body image for young adults to idolise.