Writing Genre Analysis

I approached my genre writing based on Writing in the Health Sciences guidelines for research papers. Since my chosen paper was a research paper, I looked for the sections in a research paper that included the abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, and references. This helped me decide what needed to be in each section so I could elaborate on if it was included or was not.

While reading “The Writer’s Way”, I began to realize several aspects associated with the context of the material and my own experiences in the academic world (Rawlins and Metzger). The first connection I discovered came when I read section “two Learning Equals Changing” (Rawlins and Metzger 3). I am no stranger to “experiencing and reflecting” in any part of my life (Rawlins and Metzger 3). When I take part in conversations, I analyze the content for long periods of time. Contemplating what happened, the conversation, what I could have done differently and many other questions occur in the process. In an academic setting, sometimes I process the information the same, however, I am not consistent with such a pattern. Academically I have found

In Gordimers story “Once upon a time” uses the genre of a children’s story to articulate monsters in a suburban family by using the theme of a fairytale that clashes with the theme of a childrens story so he can use “monsters” in a suburban family. Gordimer uses phrases that kind of gives him the excuse to go in and articulate the monsters into the genre of a children’s story. Gordimer knew how to put everything in place to make it be called a “children’s story” Also, she the setting of the story in a good neighborhood, just people

In David Carr’s essay, “On Covers of Many Magazines, a Full Racial Palette is Still Rare,” the author states his opinion/analysis of the magazine industry and the, small amount of diversity that is involved with it at this time, but he believes that it could be on the rise. In this essay Carr takes his opinion, explains it, and also supports it with many statistics and quotes from people involved in the industry. He supports his argument with many rhetorical devices and successfully proves his point.

In “Materiality and Genre in the Study of Discourse Communities,” authors Amy Devitt, Anis Bawarshi, and Mary Reiff discuss genre in discourse communities. The article is pretty much broken into three different parts with each author writing about another genre. Amy Devitt discusses jury instruction which basically just means that she wrote about how jurors are not able to grasp the genre of jury instruction like lawyers are able to which means they are not able to make a good verdict for defendants. Anis Bawarshi discusses the medical field and the language there. He said that only people familiar with medicine relate and honestly understand what is going on when people talk about medicine. Then lastly, Mary Reiff talked about ethnography

We know only one thing for certain about a girl who picks up a magazine: She doesn’t spend every minute of her life watching TV” and she knows a lot of facts about every magazine “ (… ) A national quarterly run out of Boston that roughly estimates its readership at 45,000” “(...) Just a few issues old from the fitness oriented Weider Publishing”. The biggest success in her article undoubtedly comes from her writing style, and Pathos was used to enhance

Obtaining the attention of multiple audiences is a challenging task to achieve, which is why when attempting to reach out to all audiences we must use several forms of communication to receive the best possible outcome. Now when speaking about my communication plan and having to create genres for various public audiences there a multitude of factors I had to consider. I had to acknowledge what is the genres primary purpose and had to keep in mind some main components such as, audience, genre expectations, and how creating these genres will impact this project. However, utilizing all aspects and meeting high standards is difficult to maintain.

Scholarly and a magazine articles are alike in some ways but are different in others; one way a scholarly source differs from a magazine article would be a scholarly article has one or more authors while a magazine article would have only one author (What’s the Difference?, n.d.). Another way these article are different is a scholarly article has wording specific to the article topic, while a magazine article’s word choice may be less educated to attract a wider audience (What’s the Difference?, n.d.). Most importantly, a scholarly source is revised by experts in the specific field and a magazine article is edited by someone who may have little to no knowledge on the subject (What’s the Difference?, .n.d.).

In an effort to compare the different writing styles between a fiction and scholarly article, this student decided to compare a story published by theOnion titled “Pentagon Holds Gala to Celebrate 25 years of bombing Iraq” verses an article published by the NASW journal Social Work titled “Psychosocial Equine Program for Veterans”. To best illustrate the similarities and differences, this student will first recognize and substantiate the points of similarity followed by those of difference.

Sports is a language that is universal. Authors often write stories that are about sports because people can relate to them. They use sports to enhance the meaning of their content and make it more interesting to readers. “Sports Writing” is writing that just happens to be about sports. Sports Writing tells a story.

The musical film has always held a special place for me. From my time as a drama student in high school, my eyes have been opened to the amazing world of the musical and especially the musical film. The musical film is a film genre in which the characters sing songs that are integrated into the overall story. Since musicals first began in theaters, musical films usually contain similar elements. These elements often simulate that there is a live audience watching. In a sense, the film viewers become the audience members, at a theater production, as the actor performs directly to them. Due to the popularity of musicals in the theater, the style was quickly brought over into film. In 1927, the musical film genre began

This paper will discuss the methods that two authors use their articles to approach their individual audiences.

No matter which type of job or career the author is looking for, a resume is a great first step. Generally, resumes are built and created in early adulthood by the author them self. There are a few things that can be assumed about the authors. First, they are middle to upper class individuals who like to show off their own personal qualifications, education, and academic and professional experiences they have obtained throughout their life. The audience in which will be looking over these resumes could be a pretty broad range generally speaking, but for the most part whoever the author is submitting the resume to will be the intended audience for this genre. I think it is safe to say this genre will be around for many years to come,

Best known for his work on genre analysis, John Swales, a linguist, has been greatly influential on academic English. His work on discourse communities has helped to greatly define and analyze the way in which unique communities may operate and exchange information. Discourse Communities are, as defined by Swales, groups that have common goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals. What is particularly influential about his writing on his topic is in his description of six shared characteristics of these specific groups, which can be used to place a variety of disciplines and subdisciplines into several categories based on shared language, terminology, and informational exchange. The multidisciplinary field of education, for example, can be broken up into various subcategories according to these six characteristics. Secondary education becomes a discourse community when a specific amount of education is needed in order to teach students ages 11-18 in the first place: Training for those who wish to teach at the high school level involves completing at least a bachelor’s degree program for secondary education and meet state licensing requirements at bare minimum. Aspiring teachers may also specialize in a particular subject they wish to teach, a fact that separates secondary from primary education as elementary school teachers will often teach a small amount from a variety of subjects to their students. According to Swales, discourse communities can define

Magazines are produced everyday and every night. It is bought all around the US in almost any convenient store. There are your sports magazines, gossip magazines, celebrity, the average person, breaking stories, comedy magazines, and mainly anything that has to do with people. It basically grabs your attention for the most part. Anything “juicy” or “shocking” that can be a hit article. The stories they have in magazines have to be exciting and it has to grab attention from readers. The publisher has to know what readers want to see or hear, even if it means doing dirty work. For example, a publisher has a picture of a man and women and makes it look much more than the real picture; when really, the man was