Armando Chaidez

RWS 1302
Genre Analysis Outline Assignment Sheet
Rhetoric and Writing Studies 1302
Carefully and closely read the entirety of the Genre Analysis
assignment guidelines in your Student Guide to Undergraduate
Rhetoric and Writing Studies. Make sure you understand the
assignment and its deliverables. When conducting each step of a
particular project it is important you have a bigger picture of the
project in mind.
This particular assignment activity the Genre Analysis Outline is
meant to be a first step, or draft, in organizing your Genre Analysis. To
receive full credit for this assignment, you must follow all of the
prompts below when composing your outline.
Remember that an effective rhetorical analysis of any text is not firstly
about what the text says, but rather more specifically about how and
why the text is composed, structured, and delivered the way it is. As
always in academic writing, the effectiveness of your text will depend
on the use of specific, supporting details culled from the source texts
to support your analysis.
Part One
Write down the two genres you have chosen (include titles, who or
where they come from, and what genres they are), and answer the
questions that follow:
Typography and Iconography
Genre 1:
Genre 2:
1. What is your topic of inquiry?
Censorship in the Media
2. Why did you select these two specific genres?
These two genres are more visual, I have always seen
myself as a Visual learner.
3. How does each genre communicate about your topic of inquiry?

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My topic is about censorship with the media through
devices like smartphones and TVs and books. Both
Genres are heavily involved in my topic.
Part Two
Answer each of the following prompts for both genres as a way of
organizing the content of your Genre Analysis assignment.
Audience and Purpose
1. Who is/are the intended audience(s) and discourse community(ies)?
The Audience is anybody who uses all these forms of
communication such as people who browse the web, people
who read books, and people who watch Television, etc.
2. What does the audience already know and what do they want to
know?
The audience already knows about these genres fairly well, the
audience most likely want to know how the topic relates to
these genres.
3. How much time will the audience spend with each genre?
They will spend a reasonable amount of time with each genre.
4. What was the purpose (inform, persuade, and/or entertain)?
The purpose was to inform the people on the topic.
5. How formal/informal is the language?
The information presented will be in a formal format but May
or may not include informal language as well.
6. What specialized vocabulary is used?
Vocabulary that will help the audience understand the
statements that are being said.
7. What other language features do you notice (text, type, font, color,
visuals, etc)?
Text, Color and visuals will have a big part in this presentation
to the audience.
Rhetorical Issues: Ethos, Pathos, Logos
How does this genre establish (or attempt to establish) its credibility
with the audience?
In a Typography each type of communication requires a source
this gives it an ethos for the people. Iconography can be
credible because of the sources listed with the media it was
presented in.
What emotions is the genre attempting to evoke from its audience?

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The genres are both trying to use Pathos to bring out emotions
out of people such as a video about a topic that relates to
them.
What types of evidence are used to support claims? Is it valid/reliable?
If there is no evidence, what is used to help support the information
presented?
Evidence that helps support the statement brought up by the
topic.
Structure and Delivery
1. How is the information organized to covey its message?
The information will have a strong Logos to help the audience
understand the message trying to be stated.
2. Are there limitations placed on the information because of the
genre? Does it have more freed to express what it needs to because of
the genre?
Depending on which genre is used it could or could not place a
limitation on the information being presented.
How does the structure facilitate its purpose?
Structure helps organize the information to be presented so
the audience will get a better understanding of the
information.