Preliminary genre analysis_guidelines
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This document provides guidelines for an assignment analyzing academic genres within a student's chosen discipline. Students are instructed to locate 3-5 relevant articles, then analyze the genre's setting, subject matter, participants, features, and patterns. This will help students understand the types of communication commonly used in their field. The analysis should discuss the genre's context and implications regarding the values and assumptions of its users. Students must cite sources according to their discipline's standards and address all prompts thoroughly yet concisely.
Preliminary genre analysis_guidelines
- 1. Preliminary Genre Analysis ENC 1102 MARTINEZ 2012 The Assignment: We have analyzed several public databases in class. Then, follow these Then, analyze the situation of the genres in class, and have discussed how steps: genre, and discuss: genres tell us things about those who use Locate roughly 3-5 articles that 1) Setting: Where did you find your them. Since you are entering a particular discuss a particular issue within your articles? What other articles were discipline through your major, it might be discipline. If you are unsure of the types published in the same issue or helpful for you to analyze the types of of conversations that you should find, try journal? How did you access your genres that are commonly used in your searching for articles related to articles? field. This analysis may help you be communication within your field. This better prepared for the types of may include articles related to doctor- Due Dates: communication that you will find once patient communication, issues of you enter a discipline. communication within engineering, and/ Workshop Draft: In order to study the academic or issues related to teacher-student Tuesday, Sept. 11 genres of your field, the first thing you communication (depending on your Final Draft: will need to do is to conduct some major). You are not limited to these Thursday, Sept. 13 research through our library databases. types of conversations, but all of your We will discuss how to access the articles should be discussing a similar “topic” or conversation. Total Value: 15% of your grade • To identify an academic conversation in your discipline • To analyze how genres in your discipline reflect the values of the Assignment Objectives: community • To understand how genre patterns serve rhetorical purposes • To think about how communication is carried out in your major or discipline
- 2. The Assignment, Continued What counts as evidence (personal articles to support your discussion. Be testimony, facts, etc.)? sure to cite all of your articles according 2) Subject: What topic(s) are 5) Patterns: What do the genre to the citation style used by your discussed in your articles? What issues, features that you discussed reveal discipline. Look at the works cited portion ideas, questions are addressed? When about the genre and the situation in of the articles you have found, and follow people read these articles, what are which it is used? Why are these those patterns when citing your work. they discussing? patterns significant? What do the The length of the assignment is not 3) Participants: Who typically reads patterns say about the people who use nearly as important as the content. this journal? Who would be interested Address the assignment in as much detail them, and how do you know? What in these articles? What characteristics arguments can you make about these as possible, without adding unnecessary must readers of this--of this genre patterns? What do the readers of this information. Focus on an analysis of the possess? Who writes texts in this genre have to know or believe to arguments presented through your genre? Who are the authors (this might understand or appreciate the genre? genres, rather than providing your own require you to do some outside What values, beliefs, goals, and opinion on the issues being discussed. research on the authors)? assumptions are revealed through the Remember that the purpose of the 4) Features: What recurrent features genre’s patterns? What actions does assignment is to analyze the genres of do the articles share? For example, the genre make possible? What your discipline. what content is typically included? attitude toward readers is implied in What is excluded? How is the content the genre? What attitude toward the treated? How is evidence provided? world is implied in it? How are sources cited? What sorts of examples are used? In what format are Guidelines: the texts of the genre presented? What You might find it useful to use layout or appearance is common? How headings to separate the different long are the texts?Are the sentences sections of your analysis. Please address varied? Is a type of jargon used? How the questions in paragraph form, using would you describe the writer’s voice? multiple examples (quotes) from your