hypocritical nature of such committees. Through all of.
these techniques the author presents several.
discourses, the most obvious of which is that the idea.
of committee meetings is fundamentally flawed. The.
author may even be suggesting that the structure of.
tertiary institutions is fatal to their progress.
Throughout this extract and beyond into the rest of.
the text, Tom Sharpe positions the reader to challenge.
the administrative roles placed upon authority and.
their ability to effectively carry out these roles.
The second text to be analysed is a news report titled.
"Students feeling the pinch- and written by Dorothy.
Illing that appears in The Australian on 17 July 2003.
It seeks to provide an informed report on "the first.
independent examination of the Howard Government's.
planned higher education reforms-. As such, its field.
covers the content of the abovementioned report with a.
formal and respectful relationship between the author.
and reader. The news report features an authoritative.
tone and informative style to aid this respectful.
relationship. An obvious textual feature is the use of.
short, blunt and to the point sentences and simple.
language to enable access to the article by less.
educated readers and to hold their short attention.
spans in check. Following along on the same ideas is.
the title. Its use of a common cliché is intended to.
grab the reader's attention, and the first paragraph's.
purpose is then to hold it. This first paragraph.
summarises the rest of the article in one short.
sentence to provoke further ease of reading. The.
article also makes use of a small textbox with another.
related article to increase the interest rating of the.
main article even further. One other highly noticeable.
feature employed is the use of many quotes, both.
direct and indirect, throughout the article, in an.
attempt to bolster its credibility. This set of.
textual features is of course intended to bring major.
emphasis to the discourses present.
