Climate Change: The Facts: Revision

Climate Change: The Facts: Revision

1. 1. FAQ's

   • Makes the text more accessible.
   • Makes it more reliable.
   • Creates a relationship between reader and text.
   • Quite simplistic, to engage all audiences, as openly as possilble.

2. 2. Statistics

   • Reliability
     • Considerably more than /Greenpeace'
     • In association with the Science Museum.
       • Reasonably reliable, substantiated.
   • End of passage - non specific, for dramatic ending, doesn't tell who, looks dodgy, uncertain vocab

3. 3. Humour

   • 'farting cows'
   • 'rotting vegetation'
   • 'nasty sting in its tail'
     • idiom
   • 'political hot potato'
     • idiom

4. 4. Words in Parenthesis

   • Links to Humour
   • 'CO2' etc to help reader

5. 5 .Casual register

   • 'it only hangs around in the atmosphere for about 10 yhears'
   • To relax the reader.

6. 6. Simple Scientific Diagrams

   • To explain it, reinforce certain things, aid your understanding.
   • Only primary colours - at basis of everything

7. 7. Parataxis

   • 'no.' and 'unfortunately not'
     • 'no' = ,monosyllabic reply

8. 8. Referenced sources

   • IPCC, Hawaii Observatory etc
   • Science Museum

9. 9. Interrogatives

   • FAQ's
   • Questions

10. 10. Discursive

    • Chatty
    • Discussing an issue
    • Conversation like