Purpose and Genres for Project 3
Purpose and Genres for Project 3
Cullen Strady
Florida State University
ENC 2135: Research, Genre, and Context
Andrew Zolot
July 19, 2022
Purpose and Genres for Project 3
In the assigned chapter reading, the authors outline several steps for creating or composing an effective journal piece. These steps entail writing a solid first draft, assessing the use of evidence and experience, confirming the informational scope, and choosing the genre composition style carefully by considering the tone, voice, language, and viewpoint (Braziller & Kleinfeld, 2021). The other steps include exploring the application and utilization of rhetorical appeals, examining content organization, considering the blend of images and words, listing the work to be revised, revising the initial draft as per the list, and making the ultimate revision. In chapter 2 of A Writer’s Reference on “Writing Situations,” Hacker and Sommers (2011) sustain that in writing situations, the main challenge entails determining the reason or purpose for writing. The purpose could be to inform, analyze, synthesize, explain, propose, recommend, summarize, and persuade, among other several reasons. Combining my understanding from these assigned readings, I better understand the purpose of my genre in Project 3.
After revisiting my Project one and reconsidering the previous genres I had chosen, I have settled on three genre options for Project 3: journal, essay, and tweets. As per Hacker and Sommers (2011), the stance I will be taking in Project 3 is that gendered perspectives permeate the conceptualization of women’s role in entrepreneurial leadership. In particular, I will focus on persuading my discourse community in entrepreneurship about the gender stereotypes against women and other gendered elements of the debate relating to gender or women’s role in entrepreneurial leadership. By composing texts in the three genres (essay, journal, and tweets), I hope to communicate this stance persuasively to audiences of women venturing into entrepreneurial leadership and experts or professionals in entrepreneurship interested in the same topic area.
References
Braziller, A. & Kleinfeld, E. (2021). The Bedford book of genres: A guide & reader for Florida State University (3rd Ed.). Bedford/St. Martin. E-book ISBN: 781319470104.
Hacker, D., & Sommers, N. (2011). A Writer’s Reference (7th ed). Macmillan.
