Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Sep 2005 Open Access

Genre Analysis and the Community Writing Course

Thomas Deans

Abstract

This article chronicles changes in the author’s service-learning pedagogy, concentrating on his recent attention to genre and its consequences for course design. The cumulative influences of rhetoric, discourse community theory, collaborative assignments, and genre theory are traced. The core claim, however, is that instructors should help students grasp the concept of genre as social action. Included are descriptions of assignments for first-year and advanced courses, plus student samples of genre analysis memos.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2005-09-01
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10.59236/rjv5i1pp7-25
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rhetorical criticism genre theory discourse analysis writing pedagogy curriculum design service learning collaborative writing
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