ENG3702 Assignment 1 (ANSWERS) Semester 2 2023 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED

Well-structured ENG3702 Assignment 1 (ANSWERS) Semester 2 2023 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED. (DETAILED ANSWERS - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED!). SECTION A Write a newspaper editorial blog for the newspaper, Evening Express, titled: Up, Up and Up Go Fuel Prices in South Africa, Spiralling Out of Control. Your newspaper editorial blog must be submitted through the usual assignment submission portal (myModules on myUnisa) on the module site for it to be marked. Your editorial blog should have: an introduction; a precise and objective explanation of the issue at hand; opinions from opposing viewpoints that refute the points you are addressing/presenting; your opinions as the writer; and a brief, sound and compact conclusion (see e-Resource 1 below). NB: Please ensure that your editorial has all of these elements without making them sub-headings! Importantly, your editorial should be in a blog form. Your editorial blog should be 500-word long. Keep in mind that a Blog is meant to be conversational, informal and a means of connecting with your reader(s). Write with passion and make each sentence convincing and impactful. Below are links to e-resources that will help you prepare and write up your editorial. e-Resource 1 (Writing an Editorial): e-Resource 2 (Editorial: Definition, Importance and Types): e-Resource 3 (Writing an Editorial): e-Resource 4 (Voting by Mail is Crucial for Democracy) 16 Pay attention to the register, discourse, use of language (formal versus informal) and structure of your Blog. Write with passion and make each sentence count. [20 marks] SECTION B Refer back to the newspaper editorial you wrote under Section A above. Now, read the text below titled, Putin’s 6-sided box in Ukraine, which is available at In a carefully considered, well-argued, and properly-paragraphed essay containing 1,000 words, analyse the text mentioned above, paying attention to the following:  the audience and context of the text and how the purpose of the text is conveyed;  the genre of the text (here you need to indicate what is meant by genre and why you have ascribed the text provided to a specific genre);  how the commentary blog you wrote under Section A above is similar to or differs from this text;  how the lexico-grammatical features (e.g., hedging, verbiage, repetition, rhetorical questions, modalisation, lexical ambiguity, and direct and indirect speech) within the text enhance the ideology and power relations; and  your stance or position on the views expressed in the text. NB: Your analysis should start from the beginning of the text and end at the part that ends with the following paragraph: “If Russia cannot refute the third side of the box I have just proposed – if it cannot break Ukraine’s will – then the rest of the box’s logic will hold. Even flouting the fifth side and opting for serious escalation will only confirm the logic of being boxed in for, whoever else suffers horribly, Russia and Russians most certainly will.” In this assignment you will only be assessed on your analysis of the written text. So, confine your analysis to the provided text. In addition, your essay must have an Introduction, a Body and a Conclusion. Marks will be deducted for ungrammatical and poorly structured essays.