Starting your Genre AnalysisWednesday, May 16th

Goals for today Discuss Devitt, Bawarshi, and Reiff

Find your three articles

Understand how to write your Preliminary Genre Analysis assignment

Be ready to work on this assignment as much as possible before Monday.

Homework and Reminders No class tomorrow (Thursday)

Read Devitt (posted on Webcourses) and take notes in your journal

Work on your Preliminary Genre Analysis paper

You can send me drafts at any point

In your groups Each group gets a section from the

assignment sheet (Patterns, Subject, Participants, Features)

Look through the questions listed in your section, and write 1-3 paragraphs that address those questions. Type and post on your FB Page.

ExampleSetting: Where did you find your article? What other articles were published in the same issue or journal? How did you access your article?

The article, “Materiality and Genre in the Study of Discourse Communities,” written by Amy Devitt, Anis Bawarshi, and Mary Jo Reiff, was published in the 2003 issue of College English. According to the journal’s website, College English is “the professional journal for the college scholar-teacher. CE publishes articles about literature, rhetoric-composition, critical theory, creative writing theory and pedagogy, linguistics, literacy, reading theory, pedagogy, and professional issues related to the teaching of English. Each issue also includes opinion pieces, review essays, and letters from readers.” This article was also published along with multiple other pieces concerning how genres mediate activities in discourse communities. These articles include Amy Devitt’s, “Assignment by Design,” which focuses on how teachers can help students understand how to analyze genres more effectively. Though I accessed this article through the online database EBSCO Host, the journal is also published and available in hard copy.

What to work on? Find your articles

Start your analysis. Look at the patterns.

Read Devitt before Monday, and take notes in your journal.