Friday 5 June 2015

A2 LL - RECAST FORMATS - LEAFLETS

A2 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
ELLA 3 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND TEXT PRODUCTION
RECAST FORMATS - Leaflet


 
Defintion:a printed sheet of paper containing information or advertising and usually distributed free.
 
Synonyms: pamphlet, booklet, brochure, handbill, circular, flyer, handout, advertisement, bulletin, mailshot, bill, notice;
 
Example of a leaflet text
 
Christian Aid Work With HIV
 
We are committed to ensuring that wherever we work on HIV, we help ensure our partners' responses include addressing other related health risks, in particular malaria and tuberculosis.
 
We have 148 partners working on HIV in 40 countries who are brilliantly placed to incorporate a response to malaria, TB and other poverty-related health issues into their community-based structures.
 
A community-led response
 
The majority of our HIV partners are in sub-Saharan Africa, where HIV-related diseases are now the leading cause of death. Two-thirds are already working on other poverty-related diseases.
 
Most of our partners rely on networks of dedicated health volunteers who are able to assist those in their own communities. Often these are hard-to-reach communities with poor access to even basic health facilities.
 
For example, in Nigeria – where 300,000 children die of malaria every year – our partners working on HIV are also distributing long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets.
 
The most vulnerable, including pregnant women, children under the age of five, people living with HIV and the elderly, receive these nets as a priority, but distribution also goes on to include all families in the areas where they work.
 
We also have numerous health programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Middle East.
 
Our priorities in this area of our work are:
 
·         community-based HIV, malaria and TB prevention, care and support
 
·         working with leaders of all faiths to challenge HIV-related stigma and promoting HIV prevention
 
·         defending the human rights of people living with HIV
 
·         reaching out to youth in new and creative ways
 
·         support for orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV and malaria
 
·         HIV work in fragile states, and in conflict and post-conflict areas.
  
Back in the UK and Ireland, we keep health issues high on the agenda of our supporters and donors through advocacy, campaigning, education and fundraising.
 
HIV and SAVE
 
Christian Aid supports the SAVE approach - originally developed by our African partner organisation ANERELA+ - as a way of working more effectively to prevent HIV infection.
 
SAVE provides a holistic way of preventing HIV. It incorporates the principles of the ABC approach  (Abstinence, Be faithful and Condom use) while also providing comprehensive information about other, non-sexual routes of HIV transmission and prevention, promoting support and care of those already infected and actively challenging HIV-related stigma and discrimination, discrimination and denial. Find out more about SAVE and how you can help support this work by donating money and volunteering on a regular basis. Contact………………….

SOME FOLLOW UP WORK

LEAFLETS  - Read the example LEAFLET above and identify conventions, key features, identify how the text addresses audience and purpose, uses genre conventions and creates specific effects from an audience.

KEY FEATURES - LEAFLETS  – public audience – often informative and persausive. Titles and sub titles, prose, bullet points, action points, imperatives

CONVENTIONS – a way in which something is usually done –such as structure, layout, address heading[s] – see above.


COMMENT – on function[s] of the convention within the context of the LEAFLET

TEXT - Link to the audience, purpose, genre, wider context, attitudes to topic[s]and topic[s]themselves

EFFECT – identify the intended effect of the CONVENTION on an audience / reader

LANGUAGE FEATURES – identify language and literary features common to LEAFLETS. Find a good quotation - short and contains strong language features - comment on these and show effects on readers.

FOLLOW UP

READ and become familiar with LEAFLETS. You will find many examples online. They are usually relatively short, accessible and on interesting topics.

Identify a 300 - 400 extract and identify conventions, language features, good quotations, make brief comments about function of the language feature and on effects on readers.