Analyzing My Genre

In this post I will be giving 5 different examples of my genre and provide concise answers to several questions.

Scary Politics

Make Peer Review Public

Do Science and Religion Conflict

Religious Rants in the Classroom

Doubt Denies Denial

Social Context

• These genres are typically set on the internet specifically slate.com.

• The subject of these types of genres tend to be science; however anything can be the subject of this type of genre.

• Science writers and commentators use this genre as a way to commentate on science.  In addition to this many different writers and commentators use this genre.

• This genre is used when someone is commentating on something. It is typically used as a light-hearted commentary that easily gets across the message without being too serious.

Rhetorical Patterns of the Genre

• Pictures and commentary are the main parts of this type of genre. Also included in this type of genre are jokes and general information and contextualization of the subject at hand are useful.

• There tends to be a general trend of starting with some simple facts and logos appeals, then appealing to the ethos. This tends to be the general trend with pathos added throughout the piece to add humor and light-heartedness. These threes appeals tend to be spread quite equally however it seems as though the logical side and emotional side are weighted much more heavily than the ethical side.

• The way this genre starts is usually through contextualization of the issue and then continues onto the authors opinion on the issue. After that there is usually a picture and then some snarky comment and the author concludes the piece by giving a possible solution or not even a solution just more snarky commentary.

•  The sentences in these articles share a similar brevity and straightforwardness. In addition to this the sentences seem to be somewhat snarky in the good way.

• This type of genre uses a lot of technical language incorporated with lots of soft language. There is a very strange combination of both academic and technical language with humorous language.

Patterns in the Social Context

• This genre includes mainly people who have some what of a technical background in the subject that the article is about and people who are interested in the subject. It excludes people who have no clue about what the author is talking about or are not that well educated.

• This genre encourages readers to get a joy out of reading the article while at the same time taking away a new knowledge of the subject.

• The people who use this genre tend to have the assumption that the audience they are talking to are fairly well educated and have a liking for humor, even if it may be a little off sometimes.

• This genre treats knowledge and humor as most important in the article. It does this for rhetorical strategies as well as keeping the audience engaged. This genre favors formality the least because it focuses so heavily on keeping the audience engaged and excited about reading.