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Writing Project #2: Advanced Genre Theories: Observing Genres DUE: Draft #1 – 9/29
Revised – 10/6

SLOs:1,2,3,4

“One way to get a handle on these complicated concepts is to try to apply them. In 7 pages, you
will choose an advanced concept or concepts regarding genre (e.g., genre uptake, meta-genre,
genre sets and genre systems) to apply to and analyze a genre or genres of your choosing.”

That’s the syllabus language. But, as always, it’s widely open to your interpretation. I’m going to
lay out two options, but of course, you can hybridize them, or you can develop your own
approach to writing this text.

Option 1:

Follow the ‘metagenre,’ or, language above. Take the main concepts that we’ve been working on
since reading Bawarshi & Reiff (2010) and Paré & Smart (1995) and apply those of your
choosing to a genre or genres. That is, “observe” those genres “in action” and analyze what you
see. “Genre or genres” here can be interpreted in different ways. You can choose to take a single
assignment from another class and analyze it as a genre (or metagenre), paying close attention to
the sorts of “uptakes” it might work to secure based on what it asks you to do — this would be a
sort of “genre-as-text-artifact approach.” You could trace how a genre is related to, follows from,
and leads to other genres (which is another way to think about uptake). But you’re not limited to
conventional texts by any means. The key here is to think about what these sorts of concepts
we’ve looked at in this unit can tell you, or help you explain about, something from your
everyday life, work, etc.

In the past I’ve had students:

  • – Analyze a course syllabus, or sections of one, from this or another class
  • – Analyze an assignment prompt from another class
  • – Analyze genred language practices they used as they worked in an Alzheimer’s ward
  • – Analyze a set of plays from their football team; this could probably work for any sports
    team
  • – Analyze protocols from work in a warehouse (work orders, etc.) as genres, genre sets,
    and genre system
  • – Analyze protocols from work as a barista as genres, genre sets, and genre system
  • – Analyze our classroom practices, genres, documents, etc.
    I can’t possibly imagine all the examples you might be interested in. Choose something you
    know that you can readily apply genre to and choose something you don’t have to chase
    right now; by that, I mean that you will want to have ready access to whatever it is you choose
    to apply these concepts to.
  1. I can’t possibly imagine all the examples you might be interested in. Choose something you
    know that you can readily apply genre to and choose something you don’t have to chase
    right now; by that, I mean that you will want to have ready access to whatever it is you choose
    to apply these concepts to

Writing Project #2 should demonstrate conventions of academic discourse:

  1. Are the writer’s ideas adequately situated in relation to sources?
  2. Are important names and terms adequately defined?
  3. Are controlling purposes apparent?
  4. Are lines of inquiry adequately revealed and followed by such strategies as pursuing lines of reasoning,
    substantiating arguments, extending examples, paraphrasing, synthesizing, and summarizing?
  5. Are documentable claims supporting these inquiries adequately and consistently cited in text and accompanied
    by appropriate reference pages