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Link: https://apnews.com/article/yom-kippur-race-and-ethnicity-judaism-berlin-anti-semitism-a341ce30925a81c063434ecd9da901ac

Text type: news article

For who: Jews living in Germany of presumably middle-age

Subject: how the Jews are scared to celebrate Yom Kippur

Purpose: inform the audience of the most recent news in a digestible and visually pleasing way

Visuals:

• Serif fonts look more credible. It contributes to the website's trustworthiness and how the reader perceives the quality of the information.

• Complex navigation at the top with a separate logo serves the same purpose of creating credibility so that people can associate the website with the newspapers.

• The image is at the top. It serves the same purpose as the heading, which makes the audience get the article's content, but presents it in a more visually appealing way. Moreover, the image of 2 policemen standing makes the audience associate the events with the article's content. Even though it does not explain the details, the author assumes that the audience is familiar with the events.

• Lack of complex visual features. It makes the users focus on the content of the article.

• Each paragraph has ample specific white space and a considerable line height, which makes it more visually appealing and simple to follow through the article.

• The headline symbolises the summary of the content. It makes it easier for the readers to navigate the content and find helpful information.

Structure:

• Separated into small paragraphs for each idea or point. It makes the article more digestible and memorable.

• There is no clear separation between the sections of the article. Hence, small paragraphs make the entire article enticing and engaging to read the whole text.

Language:

• Language is neutral

• Uses contractions. It makes the article visually shorter and simpler for a larger audience.

• No technical terminology. All in all, it makes the language simple and digestible.

• There is a lot of information given, including direct quotations of people,

• “Barge” is a less neutral form of “break into”. As the audience are Jews, they will have a similar opinion.

• It does not explain key concepts like Yom Kippur in detail because the audience must be familiar with this holiday.

General Notes

• The article needs to achieve two things: credibility and digestible language.

• Yom Kippur is one of the most important Jew holidays

• The point of the article is to inform how Jews are still afraid to celebrate the holiday a year after