One Night Stands In The Usa Summary

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Writing a text cannot be done without the comprehension of its register, should the desired goal be accomplished. The writing done in research papers and children’s books look nothing alike, and the same goes within the academical field itself. This is due to the endless registers and styles existing. Choosing one register leads naturally to an appropriate style and vice versa. Therefore, this paper will look at how the style in "A psychological romance" by Daisy Hay and "One night stands in the USA" by Mary Beard are caused by their different types of registers. Furthermore, this will be done through comparative analysis.
The topic in "A psychological romance" is about Disraeli where the main focus lies in O’Kell’s book about him. The text …show more content…

Hence, Mary Beard uses a generalised register belonging to blogging. Evidently, this creates an informal tenor in Beard’s text when looking at its structure and style. The usage of abbreviations, contractions, slang and exclamation marks. Through this informal tenor, specialised registers of different sorts are used. Beard uses the words “night lecture” (line 12), “students, and colleagues…” (line 10-11) and “rewriting and redoing the power point” (line 27), showing a teaching register. With the usage of the words choices “they’ll do their job…” (line 17), “different skills” (line 20) and “This is my job” (line 28) it shows how work register is included. Lastly, the inclusion of the words, “commercial motive” (line 9), “publicizing, selling, and generally representing your book” (line 16), “representing” (l. 16) and “PR” (line 22), shows the usage of specialised commercial register. As the text talks about Beards own life within a social platform, her usage of informal tenor and these specialised registers are needed in order to maintain coherency for the reader. Using these specialised register enables comprehension of Beard’s daily life as a professional. With the teaching and work register, the detailed encounter of Beard’s work becomes relatable, where the commercial register shows the different aspects that are part of the nuances in Beard’s …show more content…

Their comparisons are found in their modes and variations. Both texts use the writing mode, although one is a blog and the other is a review. Both texts also use the same variation in the language us they both use American English in their writing. However, their differences are plenty as a result of their different registers altering the styles they must use. In "A psychological romance" the register used goes under academia as it analyses O’Kell’s study of Disraeli. In contrast to that, "One night stands in the USA" has a register showing the authors line of work and the conditions within it. This leads to "A psychological romance" having a formal tenor where specific terms must be included and the audience leaning towards the academical field, whereas "One night stands in the USA" is opposite. It uses informal tenor with terms that are not excluding in their

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