Lucy's English Language blog

Is your brain male or female? Language and gender:  Referencing BBC Scott Kilgour, Horizon - Is your brain male or female? The question is; are men and women as different as we thought and could this be down to our biological breakdown and our brains? Or is it society that's telling us to act certain ways depending on our gender?  "W e have different roles in life and I think that's why our brains are wired differently...these differences are hard wired in our brains..." It is said we are born with certain brains, male and female, but is it the result of nature? Or nurture?  Many people believe that men and women's brains are different which is what causes us to have subtle differences in our personalities. Most stereotypes are brought to light from fact and at some point were true in some sense, women are stereo-typically maternal and sensitive and men are known to be strong and dominant, but these characteristics were once a true fact but over the ye...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2079847-a-new-wave-of-tech-will-test-our-automatic-faith-in-machines/ LEFT WING GRAMPS Genre - Opinion, newspaper article, technology Register - Formal Audience - General public, mostly adults who have an interest in technology or those who disagree with it Mode - Written, online and multi-modal Purpose - To inform people of the possible dangers of technology Subject - Technology and opinion The article, written by Jamais Cascio, is an opinion article used to inform people of the possible dangers connected to technology and why putting too much trust into them could be injurious in the long term. I believe the the target audience for this article is for the general public, but mostly adults or older teenagers who are interested in technology and how it's shaping our modern world, and because of the formal language used I feel that younger people wouldn't be as interested. Cascio uses a lexical field of trust throughout the t...