Annotations about the article 'Whatever happened to letters? Email just isn't the same.'

Personal tone
'I imagine his letters are...'
'I know...'

Personal experience
'I wouldn't like the love letters I wrote as a young man to be held up to public scrutiny'
'I recall writing my first...'

Examples used
He talks to Mary Wakefield
Example letter right at the end

Reference/quotation to others
Quotes 'another former lover' of Mick Jagger, as she reveals that he wrote her 'hundreds'

Rhetorical devices & elements of SCREAM3
'come to light' & 'too hard a habit to kick' & 'like blood in the veins' etc. = metaphorical language

'purple prose' & 'romantic resonance' = alliteration

'There is nothing like a letter... to convey feeling' = emotive language

'While blood comes out red and turns black as it ages, ink comes out black and fades to rusty brown' = contrastive pair

Write an article that explains why modern methods of communication are better than old ones.

PLAN

Assurance that the message was received
Letters can get lost in the post, whereas an email will not fail to send without warning you .done

Contacts (no need to write out the address each time) .done

Whole conversation in front of you
If you need to recall a number that was sent to you in email, you can just scroll up. If sent by letter, you'd have to find the write letter

Faster
Sending a text or email is much faster than communicating by pigeon .done

Send it to multiple people

Easier to organise
Clearly states the contact who sent it to you before opening an email or text, and sometimes a small section of the content of the message

PAF

P urpose- to entertain

A udience- newspaper

F ormat- article

My response:

I can't imagine how it is believed that old methods of communication are more practical than modern methods. Take emails, for example, that allow you to be assured that your message was received by the recipient. Older methods such as writing and sending a letter are much less reliable, as a letter can be lost in the posting process, whereas an email will kindly not fail to send without you being aware due to a notice.
  Modern methods such as emails, text messages and social networking sites save a lot of unneeded, horrid hassle of having to write out addresses or dial numbers each time you need to contact someone (I attempted to use an old-fashioned telephone to dial a number in the past, and found it quite unnecessary) because your past recipients are saved onto your device/account. I find this extremely time-saving and that also means that typing/writing/dialling mistakes are much less likely to be made.
  Furthermore, modern methods are much faster in the way that sending a text, email, private message, 'tweet', 'wall post,' etc. would take much less time than communicating by pigeon, as many used to.