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- 1. Genre RESEARCH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM SUMMER SESSIONS 2012
- 2. What is Genre? Genre is used frequently, particularly in movies and television Genre is a messy kind of idea Genre can help people understand how a writing community works.
- 3. Definition(s) of genre Genre (n): a kind, category, or sort, esp. of literary or artistic work Plato’s Genres: drama, dithyramb, epic Frye: drama, lyric, epic, fiction Music: Rock, Jazz, Classical
- 4. Why does genrematter? Genre shows how people in the fields you are exploring discuss ideas. You will need to learn to speak to your field so that they will listen. If you speak through genre, you will be able to speak your ideas in the language of your field.
- 5. What do WEmean by genre? For improving your writing, genre will be considered to be Socially situated Context dependent Flexible to the needs of human activity As we discuss this, keep in mind that Genres are always dynamic, regardless of how stable they seem Genres do not exist outside of human activity
- 6. Genre as typifiedhuman behavior Genre is the result of patterns of activity directed toward a goal that society considers important Patterns of activity Ease communication Help us make sense of the world Your fields are in the midst of a great deal of repetitive situations People repeat these situations as they act out goal- directed performances
- 7. Summary Genre istypified (repeated) human behavior Understanding the specific tendencies (moves) of the genre you are writing in will make your writing more clear Genres are always flexible according to the needs of the people using them CAVEAT: Genres do not exist without people acting toward goals
- 8. What do youlook for with genre? Tendencies of one author or of multiple authors in Sentence structure (Sorta!) Word choice (Sorta!) Paragraph development Article arrangement Formats for referencing Decisions for referencing When you are noting all of this, think about whether you might or might not use it. Keep this information in the journal you are keeping throughout your time here.
- 9. Genre Sample: Resultsand Discussion Critical comments may be explicit in identifying a problem, a solution, or both. That is, a comment may explicitly describe the problem (e.g., “the transition between the third and fourth paragraphs was rough”) or leave it implicit by only giving a solution. Similarly, critical comments may explicitly provide a solution (e.g., “add a transition sentence”) or not, leaving the writer to find a solution.
- 10. What can YOUdo with genre? Genre presents methods of presentation in writing that are strongly suggestive but are not rules. Genre shows you how to meet the needs of your community Genre also shows you where you can fit your own stylistic decisions Genre helps you understand what a field is trying to do – this is particularly important in OTHER fields
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- #2 Start with movie example, move on to pop rock example. The goals of this assignment are to Introduce students to the term “genre.” Show students how specific aspects of genre can help them with their research and writing. Underscore the importance of every aspect of genre – humans take the time to use their characteristics for a reason. Genre is not a set of externally-created guidelines: the people in the field create them for their own benefit Explore some common uses of genre with a sample text.
- #4 Genre is a term that, like all terms, changes as needed for the field in which it is being used. Genre in our situation will have a very specific denotation in order to assist you with your writing.
- #5 Not WHAT they are discussing, but HOW they are discussing it. There are a lot of voices in the world, and your writing needs to craft a voice that will be heard. Genre is a tool that will help you do that.
- #6 Socially situated : Each and every genre is created because it assists typified human behavior as people attempt to accomplish a variety of tasks. EXAMPLE: Dinner table conversation Context dependent : A genre must be either adapted or discarded as the situation surrounding it changes, since it will no longer assist in accomplishing anything for the user of the genre. EXAMPLE: Telling a joke at a comedy club, at a wake, and at a family restaurant Flexible to the needs of human activity : Genres are not bound by outside rules, but by the social situation within which they arise. There are very few hard and fast rules, and many aspects of genre can be adjusted as needed to the specific needs of people in social situations. EXAMPLE: The development of the scientific article
- #7 Goals that society considers important: scientific articles, research, books, grants, etc.
- #8 Active agents are at the core of everything in this presentation: without people acting, nothing happens.
- #9 EXAMPLES: Sentence Structure: You would not use a sentence fragment or an exclamatory sentence with your writing here. What kinds of sentences are being used? Word Choice: You will notice there is no swearing in scientific articles. Also note the lack of loaded or charged language. Paragraph development: The topic sentence-description-conclusion approach to paragraph writing is not always present. What is going on instead? Article arrangement: We follow the Abstract, Intro, M&M, R&D approach in our writing, but there is a lot of flexibility within that approach. How do people work with it? If they change it, how do they do so? Formats for referencing: APA, MLA, Chicago, what are they using in your field? Also, how is each journal making changes? Decisions for referencing: What does your field see as common knowledge? When they mention something like “the linguistic turn” or something, are they taking it for granted that the reader understands? If so, how can you use this language to help you? YOU WILL NOT ALWAYS ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS. Much of it will be quickly internalized. However, you need to make sure that you take the time to ask yourself these questions on occasion to clarify your own understanding.
- #10 Notes for this selected paragraph from a results and discussion section. Context: The paragraph discusses one specific result from the multiple hypotheses of the study. It does not cover the entire scope, but rather one branch of the overall project. This branch was discussed in detail in the M&M section. Moves in the Text : Critical comments is not discussed in detail: it was defined earlier, and the authors take it upon themselves to assume that the reader remembers. Use of “may be” gives room to the agent in the situation to act in another way than those described. So, there is a definite tendency, but no actual limits. If another way of using the comment was found, it would not invalidate the study’s discussion here. Examples are provided in order to show exactly what the authors were talking about. Apparently the language of “explicit” and “implicit” is not obvious to the community at large. Examples could be included in parentheses without a specific citation from the paper it is pulled from.