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Genre moves.pptx
1. Project 1: Genre Analysis
Introduction/Rationale
We begin our mapping of our literate ecologies by focusing on one aspect of your ecology that you already inhabit and are familiar/comfortable with. We will use a tool called genre analysis to help us understand the genres of reading and writing you do in a discourse community you already
participate in, like, think is fun, or are just really familiar with.
You will choose a discourse community to focus on, and then you will locate 1-2 genres of reading or writing that are important in that discourse community. We will work through a genre analysis together as a class using genre samples. From there, you will put together an analysis essay of the
genres, including the clues we get as to their function within the discourse community, and what they tell us about the members of that community.
The analysis essay is a common college assignment across many different majors. The basic structure of an academic analysis is CLAIM + EVIDENCE. Simply put, analysis focuses on describing how something works by breaking it down and examining its various components, and making a
claim about that something, using the components as evidence. In this version of the analysis essay, the something(s) you’ll study are examples of writing from a discourse community you have chosen to focus on. This assignment has three main goals:
