Reflection About Recount

The topic of my recount was the experience of losing my best friend in year five, due to a car accident. My purpose was to showcase the transience of life and how quickly things can change. I decided that to achieve this I had to portray lots of emotion and give the best recount of the beautiful friendship we both shared. My chosen target audience was a school student, who would have first-hand experience of what a school is like and the activities involved. Through using simplistic and familiar language, my target audience would be able to realise my purpose of the transience of life. My other text production was very different from the recount in both language structure and target audience. I wrote a persuasive speech on the recent mass shootings in American schools. I am fortunate to have lived in Australia my entire life, and during that time there has never been a mass shooting here. Recently I have become utterly shocked and upset at the common mass shootings have become in America. I grew inspired to write this piece after hearing of the recent uprising of the March for Our Lives campaign, created by students who were victims of previous school shootings to protest tightening gun laws. I wanted to help those American students by creating a piece with the purpose of conveying my

Of course the added layer of voice allowed me as the author of the written text to express the written word verbally- something which is generally left to the imagination of the reader. The use of literary techniques such as rhetorical questions and inclusive language, “When is the safety of your children, wife’s, husbands, mothers, and fathers more important than your right to bear arms? has the effect of engaging the reader to question themselves and to feel ‘closer’ to the issue. Likewise, statistics “18 school shooting just this year’ were used to support my statement and make the speech sound more