Eng 309 Unit 1 (Genre Challenges) Virtual Schedule

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UNIT 1 OVERVIEW AND
SCHEDULE
Genre Challenges
Overview
In this unit, we’ll look at style as a product of genre: those semi-stable forms of
communication that arise from the regular need to respond to a specific situation (like
marriage, or death, or the need to sell something, or the need to organize college
courses). Because each genre is unique in its purpose and audience, it also has its own
unique style that can be reproduced by different writers, to make writing easier and
more rhetorically appropriate.
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Unit Outcomes
By the time you’ve completed this unit, you should be able to…
• Define “genre."
• Explain how and why genres are rhetorical.
• Analyze the stylistic and rhetorical features of a specific genre.
• Demonstrate your "genre knowledge" by effectively reproducing and
manipulating that genre.
Date In Class Work Due
Wed.,
1/13
Intro to the course
Hummingbird exercise
Friday,
1/15
Introduction to genre
Brainstorm genres with Google
Doc
Genre analysis exercise
Introduce Project 1: Genre
Challenges
• Post your bio (Project 1 Homework
Assignments)
• Read Kerry Dirk, “Navigating Genres”
Start working on Genre Analysis:
• Choose a genre you will use as the basis
for Project 1 (all three deliverables).
• Collect three examples of your genre and
begin analyzing them using the questions
from the assignment sheet.
Monday,
1/18
HOLIDAY – MLK, Jr. Day

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Wed.,
1/20
Small group conferences during
class time
Bring any questions you have about the genre
challenges to the small group conference.
Continue working on genre analysis
Friday,
1/22
Workshop genre analysis drafts Complete draft of Project 1 Deliverable #1
(genre analysis) and upload to Project 1 Draft
Workshop #1
Monday,
1/25
Introduction to parody Complete a draft of Project 1 Deliverable #2
(genre reproduction) and upload to Project 1
Draft Workshop #2
Wed.,
1/27
Workshop genre parody drafts Complete Project 1 Draft Workshop #2 (post
feedback to your partner)
Complete a draft of Project 1 Deliverable #3
(genre parody) and upload to Project 1 Draft
Workshop #3
Friday,
1/29
No whole-class meeting: drop-in
zoom office hour
Submit Project 1 Draft for Evaluation by
Sunday, 1/31