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112 LITERACY IN THE NEW MEDIA AGE
Figure 7.2 Student drawing of a plant cell 2: the lens of the microscope
the image partly protrudes into its heading, and the heading is very tightly linked
to the written text, insisting, as it were, on a connectedness, even a unity, of
writing and image. Where in the first example they had been clearly separate,
here there is a real move physically to integrate them.
The genre of the written text is that of procedure: a sequence of distinct (in
this case numbered) steps which, when followed, will lead to the achievement of
the intended aim. The social relations expressed ‘in’ the procedure differ from
those in the recount. The recount told what happened, and the assumption was
