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For this assignment, you analyze a genre of research writing in your field.
First, you’ll select a genre that experts in your academic discipline or profession produce, and that uses and cites sources. This could be a research article from a journal, a conference paper, a policy memo, or another genre of writing that uses and cites sources and that is written by experts in your field. Then, you’ll select 3 specific, representative examples of that genre to analyze.
Purpose and audience
By conducting an analysis of a research genre in your field, you will
• Gain practice analyzing an unfamiliar genre of writing, a task you will need to
perform many times in your career as a student and a professional
• Familiarize yourself with a genre you may one day take on as a writer
• Reflect on the connections between a genre’s textual features (content,
structure, style) and its audience, purpose, and context.
Your colleagues and I are the primary audiences for your analysis. Assume an audience who is familiar with the concept of “genre” but who is not familiar with your discipline or profession.
Specifics—Analyzing Your Genre
You will use the framework described by Devitt et al. (2003) in their chapter on genre. In that chapter, they overview the process of genre analysis:
Genre analysis involves close reading and some observation by
1. Collecting samples of a genre
2. Finding out where, when, by whom, why, and how the genre is used
3. Identifying rhetorical and linguistic patterns in the genre (content, structure, rhetorical appeals, format, style)
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4. Determining what these patterns tell us about the people who use it and the scene in which it is used. (63)
Step 1: Select a genre of writing that experts in your field produce. This must be a genre in which authors use and cite sources. The genre could be a research article from a particular journal, or another genre of writing in your field. The only constraint is that it must be one in which authors use and cite sources. Ideally, it would be a genre of writing that you might yourself be producing one day.
Having chosen the genre you will focus on, you then select 3 examples of that genre to examine. So if you decide to focus on the “research article in the journal Written Communication,” you would then choose 3 specific research articles from this journal to examine for this analysis. If you want to focus on the “the grant proposal,” you would find 3 grant proposals to examine for your analysis.
Steps 2 and 3: Devitt et al. provide a description of the framework you will use in steps 2 and 3 on pages 64 – 73. Specifically, they say that in a genre analysis, you will analyze your genre’s
• Audience and purpose (step 2 above: where, when, by whom, why, and how is the genre used?)
• Content
• Structure
• Rhetorical appeals
• Format
• Style
Consult the Devitt et al. reading for explanations of these concepts! They lay out general descriptions of these terms on page 66, and then apply them to a specific genre in the following pages.
A few notes about these categories to supplement the reading:
• It is difficult to talk about a genre’s structure without talking about its content, because the structure describes the order of the content. Thus you might expect to discuss these two elements of the genre in tandem.
When you discuss the content, be specific. Don’t simply say that the content includes and introduction, a middle, and a conclusion, and don’t simply list the section headings of the genre. Describe the kind of content in each section.
• Rhetorical appeals — The questions here are these: “In your genre, do writers persuade readers through logical argumentation? If so, what kinds of claims are made in this genre? What kinds of evidence are offered? Through appealing to the audience’s emotions? Through emphasizing the writer’s own credibility and authority?” If so, how?
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• Format refers to how the words are arranged on the page. Elements of format include page length, line-spacing (single or double spaced), columns (single or double?), use of headings, bullets, numbered lists, and so on. Structure, on the other hand, is more like organization: it refers to how the content is categorized, divided up, and ordered.
• When you discuss a genre’s style, you are typically focusing on the sentence level:
o What kind of vocabulary does the writer use?
o What kind of sentence structure—simple, complex, or a mix?
o Does the genre use a lot of passive voice sentences? Or is active voice
more predominant?
o Do the authors refer to themselves using first-person pronouns (“I” or
“we”)?
o How would you describe the genre’s tone? (Warm? Friendly?
Professional? Objective? Scientific? Sympathetic? Brisk? Etc.)
o The genre’s chosen citation style is also part of this element, of course. Questions to address here:
? What kinds of sources are cited in this genre?
? In this genre, are sources typically summarized, paraphrased,
or quoted directly?
? What kind of bibliographic information is provided in the
writer’s own prose? (author name? title? None?) What kind of
bibliographic info is provided in a parenthetical?
? What kind of bibliographic information is prioritized or
foregrounded in the entries in the References or Works Cited page?
Step 4: In the final part of your genre analysis, you will reflect on “what these patterns tell us about the people who use it and the scene [context] in which it is used” (Devitt et al. 73). That is, you will
• Discuss the connections between the textual features of this genre (its content, structure, etc…) and the purpose and audience of the genre. How do this genre’s purpose and audience account for or explain the genre’s textual conventions? How do the specific features of the genre accommodate the audience and purpose?
• draw some conclusions about the discipline or profession that uses this genre, based on this genre’s features. What kinds of knowledge or knowledge- making processes does it value? Some possible questions you could answer here:
o Looking at the introductions (and maybe the conclusions) in your genre, what do you infer about where research questions and projects come from? Do they come from real-world problems? From scholarly
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questions and debates? A combination of both? From some other
origin?
o Looking at the style of your genre, would you say that the disciplines
or professions that use that genre value subjectivity? Objectivity?
o Looking at the conventions for citing sources in your genre, how do
the people who use this genre value the following elements: facts, argumentation, textual evidence, authorship, the currency of the research?
The Woolf et al. reading is also relevant here: revisit it.
Specifics—Writing Your Draft
Your introduction should
• establish the rationale for the genre analysis (here I strongly recommend that
you cite appropriate passages from Dirk and Devitt et al.)
• provide an overall description of your genre: the discipline its from, what it’s
called, who writes in such a genre.
• provide a main claim (thesis statement) that relates to your conclusions in step
4 of the analysis
• introduce your 3 samples
You may structure the body of your draft using Devitt et al.’s framework and order.
For all the claims you make, provide specific examples from the texts you have chosen to analyze. In the parts of your analysis that pertain to short passages, please provide specific examples/quotations from your samples. (I expect that your discussion of style will call for examples/quotations to illustrate your points.) In the parts of your analysis that discuss larger issues of the genre, you will need to describe your evidence in your own words.
You may either present Step 4 of the genre analysis after Step 3, or you may incorporate this element of the analysis into each segment of Step 3.
Length and Format
• Depending on the degree of detail, this paper could range from 6 – 10 pages.
• Choose your preferred citation style and use it throughout your paper.
• Margins, line-spacing, and other elements of formatting should be dictated by
your manual of style.
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Criteria for evaluation
Development of claims and content
• The analysis begins by providing the rationale for the genre analysis and by introducing the genre you’ve chosen.
• The introduction includes a clear main claim (thesis statement).
• The introduction includes a statement that forecasts the paper’s structure (this
may be the main claim, or it may be an additional statement).
• The analysis provides a detailed description of your genre’s audience and purpose and its rhetorical patterns: content, structure, rhetorical appeals, format and style, including citation style.
• The analysis provides specific examples from the texts you are analyzing (either through direct quotation or your own description), to support the claims you make in your detailed description.
• The analysis concludes by reflecting on what the genre’s rhetorical patterns—how they accommodate the audience and purpose, and what they tell you about the discipline or profession that uses it.
Organization
• The analysis is well structured overall.
• Paragraphs focus on a single topic or point.
• Paragraphs include a clear topic sentence.
• Transitions are used as needed to connect paragraphs and sections.
Style
• The analysis uses MLA, APA, or another manual of citation style appropriate to your discipline. In-text citations, examples, and bibliographic entries exhibit correct citation style.
• The prose style is concise and readable.
• Sentences are well structured.
• Typos
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