CLA Media text first paragraph

My CLA media text is a food campaign for Ella’s kitchens healthy food products. Ages range from 4-12 months.

 Is your child not eating a balanced diet? Are meal times a struggle? Then look no further than Ella’s kitchens healthy baby food, ranging from porridge and smoothies to fruit snacks and curries at dinner time. At Ella’s Kitchen we know children are known to start following simple commands such as “Push the bus!” From the age range of 1-2 years as stated in Caroline Bowen’s article on receptive language, we have purposely use foods that require a certain amount of chewing as this is proven to help speech development before your children their big first birthday.

Media Text- Sports journalism

After all the hysteria leading up to the 2013 Ashes series the Aussies certainly turned the series into a damp squid early on, going 2-0 up in as many tests as the Lions roared on. The gulf in class 3was evident to all cricket lovers, English especially as England eased past Australia at the home of cricket by 347 runs. After debutant Ashton Agar’s historic 99 at Trent Bridge, the highest score ever of any Aussie batting at number 11 in the Ashes. It was a much different story for the rest of the batting line-up, who were given a severe working over by the new ball bowlers such as Anderson and Broad. 

With the sound of ball on willow a regularity when England batted in the first innings at Lords, racking up an impressive 369 against some lacklustre bowling from the Australian seamers. The Aussies of the 90’s and early 00’s must have been turning in their retirement homes as they watched the top order get scuttled for a mere 42 runs, England were dominant and the crowd roared them home to bowl Australia out for 128, the lowest score of the one sided series.  After Ian Bell put his name up on the honours board at Lords with a majestic hundred then the die was cast for the crumbling visitors.

English Language A2 Investigation

“How do sporting events evoke nationalistic language within the media?”

The theory I am interested in researching is Language and Power most specifically, this because my motive within my investigation is to see how National sporting teams are “slated or praised” in their own countries newspapers after certain performances against rival countries.

 My methodology:

I have collected 6 online articles for data, 3 Australian articles and 3 English. All of these articles were accessed via an online newspaper. The articles all came from the Ashes series this summer, 5 tests were played and I selected a pre Ashes article from both country, an article from both country after the Lord’s test where Australia won heavily and finally I selected 2 articles from the press after the rain affected test match which saved England. All together I have 6 articles around the 750 word mark, 3 Australian and 3 English. All the articles are taken after the same point of the Ashes as this makes the data reliable and accurate as both nations are feeling the same emotion.  

The factors I had to consider when collecting my raw data was fairly simple, firstly there were no ethical issues with my data, but I had to check the reliability that each article had as I didn’t have access to a hard copy of an Australian newspaper. I collected the data via the internet from online newspapers from both countries to keep the same style of writing. One aspect I had to consider when collecting my articles was that the targeted audience that each individual paper had, if this differed to dramatically than my hypothesis that national sporting events evoke nationalistic language within the media could be inaccurate as it wouldn’t apply to all newspapers. 

Another factor I considered when finding my articles was that all the pieces have a very similar word count as if this contrasted greatly for each article then the nationalistic language content could vary significantly and give me unreliable data which would be detrimental to my investigation.