Web Resources
Documents
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By Brooke Warner, 1 July 2015. A discussion of genre in the book publishing industry.
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by Mary Jo Reiff, University of Tennessee, and Anis Bawarshi, University of Washington [DOC]
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A blog on writing for professionals; entries on the genres of business plans, meeting minutes, executive summaries, performance reviews, and others.
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"We’ve hit a critical mass of literary data that don’t fit the old dichotomies." The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, 26 January 2015.
Videos and Animations
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by Brent James & Heather Wozniak, 2006 (web). From a class project at UCLA: "This project seeks to perform text in both traditional literary genres and neo-genres such as software. How does the meaning—or reception—of the text change when it travels? And, given such changes, how much power does genre wield over perception and meaning?"
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What does genre mean? What are some examples of genres in literature and film? Professor Ehren Pflugfelder answers these questions using examples from popular movies, literature, and everyday life. The short video is designed to help high school and college English students to not only identify genres of various art forms but also to analyze their structure and purpose. The video is sponsored by the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University
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"Listen to Alex Trebek, pronunciation fan, say "genre" over and over": 1-min video of French-Canadian tv host, created by "Jeopardy! "superstar Alex Jacob.
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by Don Hertzfeldt, 1996
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a 12-part video series featuring a conversation with Carolyn R. Miller and Charles Bazerman, produced by the Núcleo de Investigação sobre Gêneros Textuais at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, 2011 (YouTube). Discussion in English; available with subtitles in French, Portuguese, and Spanish
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by Anthony Metivier, examining Derrida's "Law of Genre" and how it applies to Film Studies
Online Presentations
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by Lennart Bjornborne, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen (Slideshare), 2008
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by Clay Spinuzzi, University of Texas-Austin (Slideshare). Presentation slides from Writing Research Across Borders conference, 2011
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by Mary Jo Reiff, University of Tennessee, and Anis Bawarshi, University of Washington [PPT]
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by Jeremy Douglass, University of California-San Diego, a presentation at the 2008 SoftWhere conference
Web Projects
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a crowd-sourced wiki on automatic web genre identification
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"Our goal is to study the genres students read and write across the disciplines, both at UNC and beyond. . . . The first phase of the project involves determining what genres are most commonly taught in undergraduate science, social science, and humanities classes." Results of an analysis of course syllabi are posted on the site.
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"RGGS embraces and seeks to develop the highly developed research in current Genre Studies." Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen
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a web project by Marina Santini on advanced text analytics and genre
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Thoughts on genre, grammar, and other rhetorical and linguistic norms, a blog by Amy Devitt, University of Kansas
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an NSF-funded project examining metadata in web documents to improve access to information on the web
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"The Gamer Motivation Profile allows gamers to take a 5-minute survey to get a personalized report of their gaming motivations. . . . These audience scores allow us to explore game titles within a genre with incredible precision."
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a blog of genre theory annotations by Renea Frey
Social Media
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References
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This is a page on Rebecca Moore Howard's Writing Matters site, Copyright © 2015 · The McGraw-Hill Companies.
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CompPile is "an inventory of publications in writing studies, including post-secondary composition, rhetoric, technical writing, ESL, and discourse analysis"
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by Daniel Chandler, Aberystwyth University (web), 1997 (with updates). Chandler is a visual semiotician in the Department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies