The use of text boxes
A text box creates a border around a source and separates it from the rest of the components of the text.
Context
"Harry Potter and the Fan Fiction Phenom" is written for the Gay & Lesbian Review, a journal magazine dedicated to topics that relate to the LGBT community. Since the magazine usually consists of tradition paragraphs, adding a border around the text helps separate it from the rest of the writer's original writing and is visually appealing.
General: Writers might want to use a text box to separate it from the rest of the text, and it may be visually appealing for the genre.
Ask Yourself: How will a text box look in my text? Is this appropriate for my genre?
General: Writers might want to use a text box to separate it from the rest of the text, and it may be visually appealing for the genre.
Ask Yourself: How will a text box look in my text? Is this appropriate for my genre?
Audience
The audience may be unfamiliar with the Harry Potter series. Creating a text box for Drucker's piece lets the audience know that it is separated from Harry Potter and is something to compare the series to.
General: Creating a border around text lets the audience know that it is something different from the rest of the text.
Ask Yourself: Will my audience need an identifiable separation between different texts?
General: Creating a border around text lets the audience know that it is something different from the rest of the text.
Ask Yourself: Will my audience need an identifiable separation between different texts?
Purpose
The purpose of this article is to help the audience understand the rise of fan fiction slash writing of the Harry Potter series. The text box brings attention to Drucker's piece, and directs the audience to focus on how it is relatable to slash writing.
General: Writers might choose the use of a text box to draw attention to important information that supports purpose.
Ask Yourself: Will isolating a piece of text help support my purpose?
General: Writers might choose the use of a text box to draw attention to important information that supports purpose.
Ask Yourself: Will isolating a piece of text help support my purpose?
Persona
The use of a text box adds clarity to Marianne MacDonald's persona since she is making it easy for the audience to identify Claire Drucker's work as a separate piece of writing.
General: A text box adds to writers' clarity because it neatly separates a text within a text.
Ask Yourself: Will my appreciate me as a writer if I neatly display text that is not a part of my original writing?
General: A text box adds to writers' clarity because it neatly separates a text within a text.
Ask Yourself: Will my appreciate me as a writer if I neatly display text that is not a part of my original writing?