CCBC Online College Composition I

School of Writing, Literacy and Languages English Department

GREAT Genre Analysis Activity

Writing is a SITUATED activity, which means that each situation asks you to do something different with
the style and organization of your writing. You will review examples of three genres of writing as
systems of organization and style that have developed based on the situations they grew out of.

Following this activity, you will choose one of the genres to use as a guide to write about the
issue/question you have chosen for this module. This activity should help you get started and help you
to consider how structure impacts expression.

Part One:
In the attached organizer, please do the following:
 Explain how genre style and structure are related to the ideas expressed in the examples.
 Select one passage from each genre of readings that you feel is the most impactful, insightful,
powerful; copy the passages in the organizer and explain what it is that makes you react the
way you do to it. Use MLA style citations (in-text and Works Cited) to document the sources.
 Compose 2-3 sentences about your issue/topic in the style of each genre.
 Compose a paragraph explaining the similarities and differences of the three genres/styles of
writing
Part Two:
Select a writing style/genre that you found interesting, enjoyable, inspiring. Compose a paragraph that
identifies the genre and includes the following:
 Identify the genre
 Describe the ‘rules’ or characteristics
 Explain why you selected it
 Find another example of the genre; post a link and/or citation
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GENRES Explain how the style of Pick ONE passage Compose 2-3 Compose a
the writing influences the from each GENRE; sentences about your paragraph
ideas copy the passage issue/topic in the explaining the
below and explain style of each genre. similarities and
why it is effective. differences of the
Use MLA citation three genres/styles
style to document of writing.
the passages.

Speech/ Open The Speech at the March on

Address or Letters Washington (Lewis)is a speech
about By the force of our
demands, our determination,
and our numbers, we shall
splinter the segregated South
into a thousand pieces and put
them together in the image of
God and democracy. We must
say: “Wake up America! Wake
up!” For we cannot stop, and
we will not and cannot be
patient.
It influences the ideas to a
powerful indictment of racial
injustice and politicians' failure
to address the nation's chronic
civil and human rights'
problems.

First Person
Accounts
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Declarations