Article Plan: Project Romania

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	The purpose of this article is to inform, explain and inspire. The secondary purpose will be to entertain, as it is a magazine article and therefore must entertain the reader.
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	As this article is a narrative account of a trip, it will be written completely in first person. However, I may do a breakout box that includes some 2nd person pronouns to directly address the reader. I will not use third person because it is much more trustworthy, direct and personal if it is written in first person, as it shows real experience. I will also be able to share thoughts and emotions with my audience this way.
Register (informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	As I want to bond with my audience, I will be writing with an informal register. I think this way it will seem more personal and inspiring, as they will be able to connect and relate to the writer. Throughout the whole magazine I will be avoiding colloquialisms as it is a national magazine and I feel this may limit my audience. I don’t feel like this article is an exception to this personal rule for Gap Year. The same with taboo language: I do not feel that it is necessary and I will avoid it as much as possible.
Stylistics (repetition, strong verbs, adjectives, alliteration, similes, metaphors, sentencing, rhythm)	I want to create lots of variety in my writing; therefore I will include lots of different sentence types. Complex and compound will be popular, as these allow me to incorporate lots of descriptions in to this article. I imagine that the majority of the sentence functions in this article will be declaratives. This is because the article will be statements: stating what happened. Some interrogatives may also be used: to question the audience, to make them think about weather volunteering like that is for them. I feel questions will connect with the audience, and make it seem like a conversation, as opposed to an article.
Tone of address (hectoring, sarcastic, ‘matey’, ironic, etc)	As I would like to maintain an informal register I think it is fitting for this article to have a slight ‘matey’ tone to it. However, with the issues at hand in this article, I don’t think lots of sarcasm is appropriate. Some may be just to entertain the audience. I think that this tone will lowers the formality, which was what I wanted. I will not like to hector my audience at all, I want to make sure my audience do not think I am pushing them to see my point this article.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	As this article will potentially be very text heavy, I want to split it up with sub headings, this will make it more attractive to the reader, as the text will be broken up. I will be shortening my paragraphs, again to the article does not appear to be too text heavy.