Genre Project
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You will learn everything there is to know about a kind of writing you will do in your career. You will find online resources and analyze examples. You’ll publish your findings in an short, illustrated analytical report that explains how the genre works. You will write a short project thinking text in addition to the final report.
Step-by-Step Details
Step 1: Propose a genre to explore for your project. Think about the writing you do or will do in your field. Choose a kind of writing that you have not previously done. Ideally, you should choose a kind of writing that you genuinely want to know more about or that you know will be critical to success in your field.
You will research the kind of writing you choose, focusing on the particular kind of writing for this project.
Step 2: Set your goals for the project.
You will have the opportunity to aim for the grade you want to earn on this project. The options below outline what you need to do for the grade you want to receive.
| A
Complete the B-level project and then use unique strategies and details that are clever, original, creative, and/or imaginative. Your report should include well-chosen graphics or visual elements that increase its effectiveness. It should have no errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, mechanics, linking, and formatting. |
B
Complete the C-level project and then use design elements (like headings, layout, etc.) to highlight key information and make the report easy to read and visually appealing. Your report should have no more than two or three minor errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, mechanics, linking, and/or formatting. |
C
Write an analytical report that discusses the purpose and audience for a particular kind of writing used in your field. The report will discuss all aspects of the genre and will include at least 3 examples. See additional details below in Step 3. Your report should be complete, well-written, and include no more than 5 spelling, grammar, or punctuation errors. |
No one, in my experience, aims for a D, so I have not included any details for below-average work. If you really want a D, just put in minimal effort and do sloppy work.
Step 3: Write your analytical report.
Research and write your analytical report. There is not a minimum or maximum page length, but you should consider your audience (newcomers to writing in your field) and make sure they have enough information.
Review the example genre analysis reports to see the kind of layout and design that are appropriate for your project. Be sure to include your name on your report.
The research for your report should include the following:
- a literature review and evaluation of online resources (to learn what have other researchers already studied and said about the particular genre in question),
- examples of the genre;
- (optional) interviews with people who actually write and read these documents to learn about their experiences with it,
- (optional) site inspection (examining the actual physical work environment or conditions researchers already studied and said about the particular genre in question, experiences with it, that affect the process of this particular genre is typically composed).
You will analyze and explain the rhetorical situation for your particular genre—that is, you will identify and explain the problem that creates the need for this particular form of written communication, the purpose and occasion that calls this kind of writing into being, or the work that needs to be done and to which this text responds.
You will analyze the audience or users of this particular genre of written communication, including their knowledge, experience, and work environments, their motivations for working with the genre in question, how they perceive and use the text in question, and what they do with it.
You will outline the constraints at work on the writers and the readers of these documents, including computing environments, documents, facts, and workplace objects, but also less tangible factors such as relations, beliefs, attitudes, traditions, images, interests, and motives that are in play in their organizations or workplaces.
You will include a bibliography that provides documentation for all of the resources you have consulted. You may use whatever bibliographical format you are most familiar with.
You will obtain 2-3 examples of the particular genre in question and analyze them to extract the generic conventions, characteristics, features, and strategies that distinguish this genre.
For an example, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B02CiIQIKdtfMXVZR3B2M2tDaFE/view
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