Connect the Concept of Genre to Academic Topics/Tasks

Subjects and Concepts—Joe Moxley’s framing of genre analysis as way to read and understand rhetorical situations (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives)
Rhetorical Analysis of Online Readings—examples of analytical categories for popular media writing (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License)
Academic Writing-- “What is “Academic” Writing?--fun textbook chapter (written for students) establishing academic genre by discussing “myths” such as “don’t use “I” myths and “decoding college writing assignments” (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License)
- Purpose, Audience, Tone, and Content (Ch 3 (pp. 66-71))--concrete summary of academic writing conventions
- Ken Hyland’s Metanalysis of writing style (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0)