Blog Analysis

http://cookingwithamy.blogspot.co.uk/

I have especially chosen this blog as I have an interest in cooking, but also because I knew that this blog would be a very pleasant blog to read. The use of techniques used during this blog are used to involve the audience as the instructions for recipe making is vital that the audience feels involved during the piece for text. This is conveyed during the article by a selection of personal pronouns, 'you've', 'I' and 'you', including the reader in the piece of text. The writer of the blog also uses modal verbs, famously used in recipes, 'you must', 'you should', 'make sure you', telling the reader the instructions of what to do to complete the steps effectively. This is used to set a more bossy tone to the reader, signalling the instruction of following the instruction itself. Finally, Amy, the blogger, uses a use of rhetorical question, 'Is there something you can do with not quite ripe pears?', however, even though this is a rhetorical question, she answers the question herself with 'Yes! I discovered you can roast them', perhaps to inform any new cooks, but to also use enjambment to connect the recipe to her introduction with a smooth flow, metaphorically connecting the texture of the language to the relation of food.