'Agreement between the college and student' analysis

The text is mission statement by the college in order to inform their audience of perspective students the actions they will outtake in order to ensure their time at the college is well spent with the organisation, help and standards they want and expect. The agreement also provides a list of standards expected of the new students which they must abide to by signing the page. This allows us to clearly understand that the audience is new students to the college in order for them to understand what they can expect from enrolling at the college and also what the college expects back from them.

‘Agreement between the college and students’ is placed at the very top centre of the paper in bold block capitals in order to stand out it’s importance to make the reader aware of what they are about to read. Placed underneath in italics is a short summary of what can be expected of this content on this page – it is written in italics so that the audience can understand this isn’t the most important bit of information they need to know. This is then followed by a bullet pointed list of statements by the college which inform the audience of what they can provide. The bullet points allow the information to be set out clearly and orderly so the reader can take in each piece of information at a time. The bottom of this provides a short sign off by the ‘director of sixth form’ which makes the statement seem more personal like a letter and shows the status of the head. Following this is the section in which all perspective students must agree to. Again bullet points are used to clearly show the information so students know the exact standards they should be aware of. However above this is a statement reading ‘what we ask of you’. This is written in capital letters so the audience are aware that this is extremely important for them to get on well at the college and so it is vital that they follow these rules. Traditional and black type is used to show the formality of the agreement and that this is something that students should take into serious account.

The college agreements follows a traditional structure, supporting preconceived ideas about how texts should be presented. It is arguable that the most important information in this statement is that provided of the college about what they can offer for their students as this is a main reason as to why many would choose to enrol. Then comes the part which displays what the college expect of students should they choose to take on a course here leading us to the end of the agreement where the students signs for their commitment to the statements. This follows an explosion to resolution layout. The statements from the college are the ‘beginning of the story’ which if the audience like what they read, they will continue on. The resolution of the text is where the student signs their agreement – they like the sound of what the college has to offer, they believe they can follow the rules of the statement and so they end by signing an agreement to do so.  

At the start of the text we are met with a noun phrase – ‘agreement between the college and students’. In this phrase, the first word ‘agreement’ is the head word as it is a noun what explains what this text is. This is then followed by a preposition ‘between’ as this shows the relation between the nouns within the sentence, ‘college’ and ‘students’. Another noun phrase we find shortly after this is ‘The college and its staff’. As we go on to read the student agreement, we reach a verb phrase ‘please read this carefully’. ‘Please’ is the auxiliary verb in the phrase as it expresses the main meaning of the sentence (or otherwise ‘helps out’) the main verb in the phrase ‘read’. The adverb ‘carefully’ which gives the perspective students information about how to address this text. This is a simple imperative sentence and structure as it instructs and adding the word ‘please’ softens the interrogative sentence. ‘The’ is the determiner which is followed by the noun ‘college’ and the pronoun ‘its’ leading to the noun ‘staff’. This is also a declarative sentence as it is ‘telling’ the reader.

Through the use of its linguistic choices and structured form, it is clear that this is an informative piece of writing.