Assessment about belonging for year 12

Text Title: welcome to the website of the factory community centre.

Text Type: Webpage

Composer: Redfern/waterloo

It’s a community centre based in Redfern/waterloo. Its acts as a meeting place for community organisations and also provide services for the surrounding low income families. It is in an area that has high indigenous and new settler’s population.

It is a historic building that was once a hat factory. It’s in the middle of the public housing and high rise dwellings. The community feel sense of belonging to the place because their 30 years and it helps the generations of residents. This could also become family traditions to receive help from the factory. Belonging to the people groups would occurs because the centre is a meetings place, there liked minded people meet.

In webpage the use of photo and cartoon picture that highlights the connection between where the community dwells and the centre. The cartoon also portrays a sense of belonging to an inclusive group of people. The style of arts is informal and simple to show that the factory is welcoming.

However, the webpage manages to convey a sense of belonging and connection to people.  The style of subheading used to informal, there is not used of capital letter and style of fonts look like handwriting. The purpose is to create a connection between the reader and the people of the factory. The subheading “welcome” introduces the text and is repeated in the introduction.

 Through the use of repetition of the word “we” that provide the inclusive language to create the sense of belonging to a community group. An example “Land we live in”. Connect the traditional custodians with the present day residents. It is also described that “we have a bus” this emphasises that they are interested in helping people to become part of their community.

The use of colloquial language has effect of providing an easily readable webpage an example “The Factory as everyone like to call it”. 

Finally, the webpage be able to express a sense of belonging or connection to the place. The use the repetition of the more welcoming title “The Factory” it highlights that the centre is not a formal organisations. This allows the reader to feel sense of belonging or connection to the place.