Article Planning Sheet 2 – Thinking Outside the Box

Article target audience: Tribe – Trendie/Townie, Age – 16-25, Gender – both, Socioeconomic status – ABC1

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	Inspirational, slightly exposé. Aims to make the readers realize the competition in the dance industry for those who want to perform, and the reality of the life that comes with it, and aims to persuade them to consider other dance related jobs, and inspire them to look into one of the feature careers. Also features interviews with careers advisor and dance teacher to help achieve this goal.
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	1st, 2nd, and 3rd person narrative voice. 1st for the quotes from the two interviews, 2nd for talking directly to the reader, getting them involved and helping them imagine themselves in a particular career, and question themselves about what the like and aspire for in their future. 3rd person when talking about the careers and describing what is involved.
Register (informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	Fairly formal due to the fairly serious topic of careers. Much less colloquial and informal language in this article, and definitely no taboo as this would be inappropriate and would not suit the tone as I want the readers to think carefully about their future.
Stylistics (repetition, strong verbs, adjectives, alliteration, similes, metaphors, sentencing, rhythm)	Scarce use of fancy stylistics so that the article is as clear, and easy to read as possible, so they have a full understanding of the information given on the dance industry and the dance jobs. Emotive language used so that the reader can connect emotionally with the explanations of what the jobs entail and perhaps feel it is something they would like to do.
Tone of address (hectoring, sarcastic, ‘matey’, ironic, etc)	Positive tone so that the article is as inspirational as possible, and formal address as previously mentioned.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	More or less continuous prose structure, as all parts of the article are related and the same, however broken up into paragraphs for each job with clear sub headers allowing the reader to skip sections on jobs that initially do not appeal to them or dip into sections on jobs that do attract their attention. Introduction that tells of the harsh reality of taking on a dance performance based career and the competition to get there should convince them to read on to see if any other careers appeal to them.