Genre
Mention a genre that can be analyzed in this class
Any "text" that conveys a message. Twitter posts, essays, book reports....
What are the elements of Rhetorical Situation?
Purpose, audience and context
What´s literacy?
Competence or knowledge in a specified area
Capital of Japan
Tokyo
How would you define Genre
Are categories of texts that share similar audiences, purposes, contexts, content and forms.
The choices made by an author about an specific text to achieve a purpose and communicate to an audience
How would you define Digital literacies?
Being knowledgeable about digital media and tools.
What elements do you check in design conventions?
Medium, text, format, headers, colors...
What was the purpose of the literacy narrative? P1
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Can you mention specific genres related to your major? All the team
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If the genre analyzed is Amazon product reviews; what do you think might be the audience?
Amazon consumers, product sellers, product-quality-reviewers...
Difference between primary and secondary sources?
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What convention can you identify in an Online Film Review?
Author´s name, name of the film, opinion and argument of the film. Short description of the movie...
What was the class´ "least liked" thanksgiving dish?
Green bean casserole (aunt´s/relative)
Why are genres considered "social practices"?
Social ettiquette. There are conventions within genre, as well as groups of people interact with the genres in different manners, as well as they have expectations for practices within the genre
What´s the purpose of a "Moves analysis"?
analyzing the different parts of the text that carry specific goals, helping the writer accomplish the goals of the text.
In the post it note (Example by the teacher) what would be the purpose and the audience?
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What language conventions can you find in the Post-it example?
Short sentences. Informal language. Modals of requests. Please, thank you. Smile icons. Lack of punctuations
Mention 3 tools to create an infographic
Piktochart, canva, adobe spark
If you wanted to analyze a genre, which would be the first step to carry?
Collect samples/ Moves analysis
How are discourse communities different from audiences?
DC share a set of writing, values and interact with the genre. Audience refers the target that the text is meant for. An audience can be integrated by different DC
In teams, search for secondary sources if you were to analyze book reports
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What are citation conventions? Why are they relevant? Example of a citation convention
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Names of the 2 books we reference for this subject
Students guide to foundations writing and St Martins Handbook