Assignment description:
In this assignment, we’ll be producing an example of a genre of your choice. Working with your genre of choice, define what the genre is and how it works, using three examples of the genre. From that starting place, you’ll draft your own text within the genre. Once you’re done, you’ll write a short explanation of how your text belongs in the genre and how it matches up with your examples of the genre.
Questions to consider:
- Style—What is the tone of the genre? How does it appeal to readers?
- Design—What formatting choices define the genre? What types of design choices are possible? How are they used?
- Medium—Where is the genre found? How does that location/technology impact the format of the genre and access to it?
- Use—Who uses this genre? How do they use it? What types of things usually get talked about with this genre?
Assignment Guidelines
There will be three major components of this assignment: your explanation of the genre, based on your examples; your example of the genre; and your explanation of your example fits the constraints of the genre as you’ve defined them.
General Outline
- Introduction
- Introduce the paper’s purpose
- Introduce the sections and their orders
- Genre Definition
- Explain what genre you’ve chosen
- Define the genre’s style, design, and medium
- Explain who uses the genre and why they use it
- Genre Text
- Include your text here
- Genre Text Explanation
- Explain how your genre text matches the constraints you’ve chosen
- Explain how the genre conveys your message and why it is an effective choice for the message
