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● The question I will answer: ● Section B: Register, Language, and Audience:“So easy to read.” Use this observation from Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” to analyse how register and tone enables or impedes clear communication to an audience. ● Essay type: analytical and evaluative ● I will be writing an analytical/evaluative essay to answer this question as I will be analysing the use of register and tone in the texts and evaluating their effectiveness to communicate the author’s arguments and ideas to their readers/audience. This will include a breakdown of the diction, setting, context and purpose as well as the choice of words used by the authors to convey emotion/tone and relay their arguments. ● Essay structure: point first essay ● I will be using a point first essay to answer the question as I will be introducing my argument/main point in the first paragraph and using the essay and analysis of the texts to answer the question and reinforce/come back to the main point in my conclusion. ● Choice of texts 1. Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” ● Citation (chicago): Tan, Amy. "Mother Tongue." The Threepenny Review , no. 43 (1990): 7-8. Accessed May 8, 2020. w  ww.jstor.org/stable/4383908. 2. Lauren Collister’s “Why Does Using a Period in a Text Message Make You Sound Insincere or Angry?” ● Citation (chicago): Collister, Lauren B. “Why Does Using a Period in a Text Message Make You Sound Insincere or Angry?” The Conversation, June 4, 2019. https://theconversation.com/why-does-using-a-period-in-a-text-message-make-yo u-sound-insincere-or-angry-61792. I have decided to use these two texts as they work very well together in terms of addressing the significance of register and tone when communicating to an audience. They both address how language, tone, and audience significantly affect how we communicate our ideas in our writing, where we adjust our behavior, speech, and actions depending upon who we are speaking to or writing for (our

audience). This is shown in Tan’s texts when she demonstrates the different types of “Englishes” that she uses with her mother compared to that she uses for a talk to an academic audience, and how she uses the two in completely different situations. Collister also discusses the use of situational switching and the different types of formalities we use depending on the situation we are in. Both texts also analyse code switching and the importance of tone and how writers choose language to create tone depending on the purpose and the point they want to convey or emphasize. Tan uses a rather defensive tone to express her emotion on the disdain of and discrimination against non-standard English ans its speakers. Whereas Callister uses tone to establish how it can influence the emotion conveyed (for example how periods in text messages sound insincere)....