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This activity has students look up blogs or articles about a particular beauty/grooming/fashion trend. They examine the context and identify the different rhetorical and cohesive devices used. As an extension, then they create their own beauty blog.

Learning objectives: Students will be able to...

1) Identify rhetorical and cohesive devices used in a beauty advice blog.

2) Follow conventions and style for a beauty advice blog, students will create their own blog.

Modes: Interpretive Reading, Presentational Writing

Materials needed: Handout

Procedure: 

1. Introduce the topic of beauty advice blogs, blogs that highlight new beauty or fashion trends and give advice on how to follow the trend. Look at and discuss a few examples together as a class, highlighting the format and style.

2. Ask students to search and find a beauty, grooming (such as beards), or fashion advice blog. Using the handout, students will fill in the chart with the different rhetorical and cohesive devices they find in the text. 

3. Review in groups what types of language they found, and then discuss as a class.

4. Possible extension: Now have students write their own beauty, grooming or fashion advice blog, following the conventions of the genre and employing some of the rhetorical and cohesive devices they identified.