Peer-Review #1: Community Genre Analysis (10 points)
For this peer-review session, upload, your document (as a doc. or docx.) by Wednesday or Thursday, of week four.
Guidelines for the Writer:
Here is the prompt for Module 2: Community Genre Analysis (CGA):
Students will identify two distinct texts in different genres (written, visual, and/or oral) created by their organization or related to their selected issue. Students will write an explanatory genre analysis of the two texts and how they operate rhetorically. Students will engage in peer review activities during the writing process.
*Remember to select a Typography/Written as the mandatory genre and one of the other two: Iconography/Visual or Audio/Oral as your second genres.
What should be in your Community Genre Analysis draft?
Make sure to examine each selected genre and answer the following:
Audience and purpose:
Provide a brief introduction to the topic/issue that the two genres will examine.
Describe each genre, including the type of genre? (Remember one of the genres should be typography (written) and the other should be either an Iconography (Visual) or Audio (Oral) based.
Who is the intended audience or discourse community?
What is the purpose of the information presented in the genre?
How does the audience tie in with the purpose?
Rhetorical Issues:
How does the rhetorical situation convey the message to the selected communities? (Refer to EAA p. 69).
How does the genre help establish credibility (or attempt to establish) its credibility with the audience?
What types of evidence or rational information are used to support claims?
How does the genre’s author connect to the community the genre is addressing?
Structure and delivery:
How is the information organized to convey the genre’s message?
Does the structure of the genre facilitate its purpose?
Conclusion and synthesis: (Reflection)
Do you think the two genres achieved its purpose? If not, why not?
Do you think the two genres were effective in conveying the message?
Offer final comments on the impact of the genre used to impact the discourse of a community, the targeted discourse community, or communities the genre(s) impact(s).
Format:
Use APA for this assignment and remember to include a Reference page. Use Grammarly (free version) to check for low order concerns.
Word count: 800-900 words, or roughly four double-spaced pages (more is fine).
As a reminder, you are the writer, and you frame this discussion through your own lens of what genre means in the selected types of genres you have viewed. It is up to you to make a convincing argument for why you have decided to analyze the genre in this way.
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