Genres
Terms/Definitions
Who said?
Questions for Genres
100

Makes you laugh

Comedy

100

M&M

Morbidity and Mortality Conference

100

"With our thoughts we make the world"

Buddha

100

What situation calls for the genre

Situational elements

200

Scary

Horror

200

Liminal Space

State of mind when you are fluttering between understanding and confusion

200

"All writers have more to learn"

Wordle & Downs

200

What content is usually included

Substantive Characteristics

300

Magical, Unrealistic

Fantasy

300

Pseudo transactional

pretending to communicate with other people; what school writing in described as

300

"Typified rhetorical actions in response to recurrent situations or situation types"

Carolyn Miller

300

What form/tone does it take

Stylistic characteristics

400

End of the World

Dystopian

400

Conversational Inquiry

when a research topic creates a discussion through reading and writing to explore answers

400

"Construct or create meaning by reading"

Wordle & Downs

400

What makes it recognizable

Organizing principle

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