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English 1001: Genre Analysis Essay Guidelines

Task: Collect multiple (3-4) samples of a short, simple genre. Identify key features of the genre. Discuss the social actions and values represented in these genre features.

Consider the following categories of analysis:

Rhetorical purpose

Typical content

Structural features

Linguistic features

Your essay must use specific examples from your genre samples in order to support the generalizations you’ll be making about the genre as a whole.

Purpose: 1) to demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which writing is shaped by genre, 2) to demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which the conventions of genre reveal the norms and values held by the group that uses the genre, 3) to demonstrate a working knowledge of and adherence to the genre conventions of the academic essay

Length: Minimum of three double-spaced, typed pages

Format: MLA, Times New Roman 12 pt. font