Genre Analysis about Soccer injuries FOR ESSAYSTAR

In this project, you will demonstrate your understanding of the power of genre. To do this, you will select a textual genre (a set of similar texts), analyze that genre in a genre analysis, and write your own piece within that genre (create your own text). PART ONE: Arguments About Genre                                                                                      First you will select a genre to analyze.   To do this, find 6 samples (individual texts) that are all a part of the genre you choose.   To find the best examples/evidence for your analysis, you will need to collect many samples, but 3 to 4 will be a minimum in the final analysis.   Collecting Samples You will find at least 3 samples from a particular genre, due on two different days for a grand total of 6, leading up to writing the final genre analysis. You will choose one genre for your analysis.  Each time samples are due you will write a short reflection. The reflection will be a 1 -2 page reflection/response that addresses questions from the About Genre and Genre Analysis handout, and anything else you notice about the genre. These reflections/responses will be graded on a check +, check, check – scale (see grading section in syllabus for more).   Due Dates: 11/7 – Find three samples, print/bring, and attach to your 1-2 page analysis. 11/9 – Find three samples, print/bring, and attach to your 1-2 page analysis (If you really like your first genre, stick with it, find three more examples and do a more in-depth analysis. If you don’t like your first genre, choose another for the second collection).   Genre Analysis Carefully analyze and make arguments about a particular genre you choose to explore. Focus on the samples you have obtained for support. What are the expectations or “rules” of the genre? What features of your genre “work” for those who use the genre, and what features need to change? Return to the questions on the “Analyzing A Genre” handout for more questions to get you thinking and analyzing. By doing this, you demonstrate your ability to recognize rhetorical features of a text and evaluate their purpose. Stay away from simply describing or focusing on the obvious – your challenge here is to come up with an argumentative analysis of how your genre works and why.   Write a 3-5 page, extended analysis, of the genre you chose. Include the examples of your genre that you find.   DUE DATES: Rough Draft 11/14 &11/28, Final Draft 11/30     PART TWO: Creative Genre Artifact                                                                                                  In preparing for this assignment, you have carefully studied a genre of your choosing. Now, to demonstrate you understanding of genre and have a little fun, you will create a piece that:   conforms to the expectations of your genre, and breaks the rules of your genre.   What do you mean by conform to and break the rules of a genre? The Onion is a famous example of a text that both conforms to genre expectations – it maintains the conventions of a newspaper in style and tone – but also violates those norms – by having funny and ironic content. You will create a piece that does this, conforms to and breaks the rules of the genre you chose to analyze.   But why are we breaking the rules of a genre? Simply reproducing a genre doesn’t take much work on your part. But by breaking the rules of the genre, you are forced to think about the genre very closely. For instance, a student in a previous class chose to write “wedding dis-invitations” (she was working on her own wedding), and she explained that having to break some rules caused her to see features of the genre she had never noticed, such as that women are often listed by first and middle name, while men are listed by their full names. Breaking the rules also lets you have a bit more fun.   For this part, you will create a text that simultaneously conforms to and breaks the rules of a particular genre. In addition you will explain to me what rule you broke, and how you broke it in a brief email.    What I’m Grading On                                                                                                                          Part One ¨      Critical Thinking and Writing Ability (Do you demonstrate critical understanding of the genre? Beyond identifying what the patterns of the genre are, you understand what they mean, the why.) ¨      Argument (Do you make arguments about how and why your genre works?) ¨      Organization (Is your paper organized in an effective way? You have a thesis statement that predicts/sets-up the analysis) ¨      The text is thoroughly revised. The expectation is higher here than it was in the first paper.      Part Two ¨      The text is readily identifiable as belonging to the genre you have chosen (You will have read and seen examples of this genre. Your text should be written in a format that reflects this.) ¨      The text obviously breaks some rule or convention in the genre you have chosen.