Raising Boys

text: Raising Boys by Steve Biddulph Texts should have social relevance and also entertain. The best-selling non-fiction book, Raising Boys by Steve Biddulph, is an example of a text, which does this. It presents issues, which affect the people of today's society, such as boys failing at school, domestic violence, communication difficulties, delinquency, homosexuality and sexual abuse. In order to encourage parents to read his text and accept his ideas on these issues, Biddulph has …

…to make his text entertaining. Through it's success, being a 'No.1 bestseller', the text proves that even though social relevance may be important in positioning the reader to wanting to read book, it also needs a balance of entertainment and fun to keep all ranges of target audience interested. It can also be said that, with the amount of serious issues that are affecting today's society, expository texts, such as Raising Boys, are indeed needed.