Chapter+5-+Writing+Styles+and+Genres

= ** Differentiating writing styles and genres: ** =

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Genres intrigue and motivate students. They allow students to express themselves. Implementing different genres allow students different ways to communicate through writing. Below is a list of different types of writing style genres with a brief description of each. ======


 * **Different types of genres:**

o [|**Advertisements, theme songs, and jingles**]- (click for outside source examples)This writing style is good for remembering detailed facts. It helps students remember topic information in a creative way. o **Autobiography**- This allows writing to become a personalized experience. o **Biography**- This writing style implements research into writing about another person’s life. o **Cartoon** **and** **comic** **strips**- Humor enhances learning, relieves stress and reduces tension in life for individuals of all ages. Use this method to use info in their unit of study. Put the characters conversation in speech bubbles to elicit the students interpretation of emotions and feelings**.** o **Dialogue**- This writing style incorporates both writing and presentation. Allow students to write and role-play the conversations of characters. This allows interpretation of facts, personalities, and emotions. o **Experience** **charts**- Write the students discussion notes, lists and stories on a chart of transparency using the students words as they are expressed. This is an effective way to model writing and work with student responses. o **Lists**- Lists may be used to alphabetize, categorize, chunk, sequence, and sort information. They are easier to recall than paragraph form. This writing style is used mainly before a student composes. This is a good way for students to brainstorm. o **Magazine** **articles**- Writing an article for a favorite magazine is an effective activity because it gives the students a chance to write on a topic of interest. o [|**Photo** **essay**]-( click for outside source examples) This writing style implements both visual and verbal forms of writing. A photo- essay is a detailed report about an individual or a group of people, an event, concept, or discovery in a picture form. o **Profiles**- Assigning a profile for a different writing style can provide an accurate account and a novel way of writing a report or an outline of an event or incident or a person/people. o **Sitcom**- This writing genre allows students to bring a topic (show) of interest to inspire writing ideas.

**__Some Scholarly Help:__**

 * These different genres of writing style that Chapman and Kings provide are helpful in a sense that student's get to explore writing in more than one fashion, however, many writing scholars would add more suggestions to this. James Kinneavy for example would disagree that this is as differentiated as it should be. In Kinneavy's //"The Basic Aims of Discourse,// he expounds on the importance for writing teacher to utilize all writing discourses. He calls them the "4 Basic Purposes". They are: **reality**, referential, exploratory, scientific, and informational, **decoder**, persuasive, **encoder**, expressive and **signal**, which is literary. These set genres fail to use all these discourses. On the other hand, Lad Tobin would say that these variant writing styles allows authenticity and would find them to suite well in his classroom. As previously mentioned through out this wiki, this text is very expressive. It empowers students to create, which Peter Elbow and Donald Murray focus on in their writings.
 * On a side note, these genres make it suited that different types of media could be implemented into the assignment. Helpful scholars to aide these ideas are [|Mary E. Hocks in //"Visual Rhetoric in Digital Writing Environments"//] and Troy Hicks, //"Examining Author's Craft Through Multimedia Composition".//