Thursday, January 13, 2011

Teaching W/Genre

Possible Assignment:

Have students identify a genre they know well and have experience with. First have them analyze it and then have them teach it.

To analyze it, I might even have them draw on Pare/Smart:
  • Regularities in Textual Features
  • Regularities in Social Roles
  • Regularities in Composing Process
  • Regularities in Reading Practices
Other questions or organization...
  • What is the name of the genre
  • What is the social situation to which the genre responds?
  • What are the various parts of the genre, the structure? Why?
  • Please write a short introduction to this genre and address the following...