Casey Tran Genre Analysis Draft 1

Rather than define genre as the types of music or books you see in a library, I'd like to describe genres in literacy as a te!t"type de#eloped through repeated use in rhetorical situations$ This definition allo%s specific te!ts, such as epic poems, to be labeled and differentiated bet%een non epic poems$ &importance'( )a#ing epic poems be described as a genre allo%s the discourse community on mythologies and ancient literature to be able to create an identity for themsel#es and study the impact and use of these te!ts in rhetoric situations$ &claim(

&Can add %here articles came from and ho% I accessed them, maybe put into another paragraph( *or e!ample, epic poems stand out in the fact that they are &e!amples+ old, impactful, long stories about ,ourneys, conse-uences from stories, passed do%n by mouth before being %ritten do%n$ All . are taken from the perspecti#e of someone else speaking, Importance of author( as opposed to & differences in epic and non epics here/ common layout or length not found in non epics($ 0ach article comes from ancient times %hen &1 author said/%rote this for 1 reason &morals/greater o#erarching point(( &)omer describes ,ourney of 2lysses, 3ahabarata tells a story through 4auti$$$ etc$( 5" this paragraph can be e!panded a lot and can lead into &%hat topics are discussed throughout each poem, back to the morals, points(

)o% do these te!ts in#ite/dissuade others to participate' &length and characters re-uire a good in#estment of time for them to be read / te!t goal ' %hy did author %rite or tell this / te!ts contain introductions for each character for the most part$( "" &use points in other paragraph about differences in epics #s non epics dissuade other not in the community // can mention length, especially of mahabarata(

&Dra% conclusions about discourse community based on genres, still need to think about this(

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