PAPER 1: Guided textual analysis
EXAMPLE 1:
Text 1 is an open letter from Kiara Imani Williams, a third- year law student in the United States, to President Obama, which was published on LinkedIn Pulse on 18 March 2015. Williams is critical of President Obama's broken promise to make higher education affordable for her and the American middle class. Through Williams' use of anecdotes, rhetorical questions and pathos, she calls on Obama to save the American Dream and deliver on his promise to make higher education accessible to all.
EXAMPLE 2:
In 2011 Jack Layton delivered a speech to his fellow New Democrats in Québec, encouraging them to vote for him as the new Prime Minister of Canada. His use of language, especially his use of anaphora, tricolon and pronouns, is typical of speech writing and helps him achieve his purpose of getting people to vote for his New Democrats party.