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Genres
How to create Genres
Using your notes, you will create three different genres to show what you have learned about your research question. Before you begin drafting, decide what you want to show and how best to get across the information. In each genre you will cite where you got the information using internal citations. Put these in as you draft; don't wait until the end to go back and add citations.
Each genre should add some different information, insight, or perspective to the overall project. There are many ways to divide your research findings into three different genres. You may want to cover different aspects of your research question in each genre such as cause and effect, historical background, historical periods and current ideas, scientific background, problems and solutions, local, national and world, or other divisions that make sense for your topic. You might separate contrasting perspectives into different genres. Alternately, each genre might enrich the others in another way.
Audience and Purpose
Once you've picked which information is going into a particular genre, you will need to decide on the audience and purpose for that genre. The audience and purpose determine the style as well as content.
Audience: Who will be reading/experiencing this genre? Consider age, interests, prior knowledge, and beliefs. What will make this audience want to read/experience this piece? How will you grab the audience and keep them interested? Try to appeal to what your audience cares about. What style of writing and tone is appropriate for this audience? For instance, if your audience is educated adults, avoid slang and profanities, and examples from teen pop culture.
Purpose: Why are you (or your fictional person) writing/creating this piece? Do you want to inform, persuade, complain, enrage the audience? Use content and style that fits. For example, if you are writing a letter to the president from a person who has experienced the effects of pollution, you will want to include facts and statistics that persuade as well as a formal tone.
Genre Requirements
- Your genre must show significant information (details and ideas) from research.
- The genre must be chosen thoughtfully. Your Afterword can help your genre grade by describing why you chose that genre and what you were trying to get across.
- You must use internal citations.
- You must submit at least two text genres (Genres A and B) and one visual genre (Genre C). Text genres must include a page (each, typed) of your own original writing.
- For each genre, remember Audience and Purpose.
- For each genre, you must submit a draft for feedback and then revise it before submitting a final draft.
Ideas for Genre A and B: Text Genres
- letter
- journal/diary entry
- newspaper article: news story, letter to the editor, editorial, or other section of the newspaper
- magazine feature article: profile, informational, how-to, human interest, in-depth report
- interview
- script for TV or radio show
- long poem
- dramatic scene (written in play form)
- dialogue
- song lyrics
- text of an official document
- your pre-approved idea
Ideas for Genre C: Visual
- Illustrated children's story
- map with explanation
- website-you created
- brochure with text
- comic strip
- magazine advertisement with text
- CD or book jacket with original text
- product package with text
- poster or collage with explanation
- drawing, painting, or graphic art with explanation
- photo with explanation, story
- game
- crossword puzzle
- recipe
- your pre-approved idea
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