Week 14 PowerPoint

Wednesday, December 1st

MODULE 3:

Writing In a New Genre

DAY 7

Check In

How is Project 3 going so far? Where are you in the process?

Today

• Discuss the genre elements you must include and think about how to incorporate them
• Take time to draft genre piece and artist’s statement

Project 3

The Two Parts

Part 1: Genre Piece

This first part is the writing about your research (From Module 2) part!

• Write about the research you did in Module 2
• Address the audience you think needs to know what you learned in Module 2 (just the most important parts)
• Write in the genre that you think will best reach that audience (for example a blog, a news article, an opinion article, a speech) with a specific audience in mind (parents of teenagers, teenagers who play video games, people who use beauty products, etc)

Part 1: Genre Piece

What you submit:

• A text that is in a specific genre of your choosing that YOU write (not information or opinion, but a VERY specific genre) like a news article or a blog. However, you do not have to create a website and blog, it just has to feel like one in its style!
• You should write the text on your topic from module 2 (from your annotated bibliography) and use that research (properly cited) to explain to your chosen audience about the topic and why it's important.
• For example you might choose a claim (argument) and explain why your audience should support your point of view. OR you might explain the problem and propose a possible solution to the problem. Or you might choose an issue and explain the key thinking around the issue if you are writing a news article (for example).

Part 2: Artist’s Statement

• This is the reflective piece. You will also create an Artist’s Statement. This will provide you with an opportunity to thoughtfully reflect on your final project and on the work you have done together in this unit. In an artist’s statement, the author explains the decisions and choices that they made when composing the piece such as the choices behind the genre, rhetorical situation, use of rhetorical appeals, mode, and medium. The author’s statement should be between 750 and 1000 words.

Part 2: Artist’s Statement

What you submit

• A 750 to 1000 word Artist’ Statement that reflects on your genre piece. It answers the 3 key areas: Before I began / Doing the project / Now that it’s done.

Genre Elements

What genre elements do you have to include? How can you incorporate them in a meaningful way?

Use Week 12 Monday PowerPoint

How to IDENTIFY the KEY Elements of the GENRE?

How do you know that a text is an example of a specific genre?

For example, how do we know that an advertisement is an advertisement? Or that a poem is a poem? How do we know that a Tweet is a Tweet and so on?

This means, let’s say you choose to write a blog on your topic, what do you have to do in order to make it a blog, not, say a 5 paragraph essay?

What specific elements make a blog a blog or a speech a speech or a website a website?

Start thinking about the unique characteristics of different genres and how they might appeal to different audiences and how they approach different topics.

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Examples of key elements

Documentary: Experts on the topic, focus on a specific topic, they have interviews and statistics, they are often opinion based, they are a movie, etc.

Blog: One person’s opinion on a topic, on a website/ internet, talking about someone’s personal experience, it can bias or lack credibility (or be credible), the medium is NOT print--they are web-based

News article: Fact-based, not opinion based, usually includes quotations from eye-witnesses or experts, describes a situation or event or major news story, can be in print or online

Opinion articles: Opinion based, often include facts and statistics, but ones that support the author’s opinion, they can be included in major newspapers, are often on major news events or current events, can be in print or online

Examples of key elements

Tweet: Can only be 160 words or less, on Twitter, often snarky or relevant, can include images or memes or GIFs.

Song: Usually has a melody, melody often sets the mood or the tone, sometimes has rhyme, can be structured as a poem, 3-5 minutes, radio version/ non radion version, somebody is singing, usually shorter sentence structure, sometimes a lesson or a message behind it, the way the words are put together make it sound like a song

Play/ Drama: Tell a story, intended to be acted out, dialogue or conversation, often there is a narrator, can be a message or a lesson (but not always), can be serious or funny or sad or scary or absurd

The KEY Elements of my Genre are...

The key elements of my genre are …. An example of my genre is …. (**FIND OTHER EXAMPLES**

In order to write an example of a ____ , I would have to include ____.

The tone should probably be ____ because ___.

I would / would not include images. I would / would not include facts / statistics….

I would / would not include expert opinions and quotations.

I would/ would not include text features like headings, bold print, italics, etc.

DESCRIBE whether you would INFORM your audience about an issue or PERSUADE them to see your point of view or ENTERTAIN them...

GENRES (8am)

Marzan: News article (people who support honor killings)

Jamal: Opinion article (hs football players)

Sara: Blog (college students, high schoolers)

Adrian: blog on gaming site (Parents of teenagers who play video games)

Jasmine: Comic Strip (people who think animal testing is good)

Christopher: Blog (high school and college students)

Wilson: Opinion article (students)

Justin F: Opinion article (parents)

Ahmed: Opinion article (parents)

Orlando: Opinion Article (People who support the 2nd amendment)

Alisha: Poem

Waldy: Infographic (NYC Residents who don’t know about composting)

Justin I: News Article (NYC Residents / Adults)

Jin Teng: Blog (Drivers)

Christian: Scientific Paper (people in 35-55 age group)

Amadou: News Article (law makers)

Alan:

Ibrahim:

Diamond: Blog (students)

GENRES (10am)

Khalil: Video Essay (people who are not well versed in pop culture

Mahdi: Blog Post (police, progressives, those impacted by police)

Saida: Feature Article (people that use too much plastic and want to learn about the issue)

Xenia: Opinion Article (

Travion: Speech (world leaders)

Kaylee: Blog (teenagers)

Edgar: Blog (parents)

Abdul: Blog (teenagers)

Tehmina: Feature Article (parents)

Chris Lopez: Blog (gaming community)

Shariffe: Poem (people who addicted to gatcha games)

Geraldo: Blog (gaming community)

Unijah: News article (gaming community)

Darleny:

Siraj: Social Media Posts (twitter, insta) (parents, kids)

Christian P.: Blog (gamers)

Emilyah: Opinion Article (teens)

Reveena: Model Lesson that they could use in their classroom (primary audience (teacher) secondary audience (students with LD)

Rudrajit: News article (people that would like to know current world events)

Noman: Blog (young people enrolling in college)

Tenzin: Blog (primary: people that work in factories, secondary: teenagers that are looking to work in factories)

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GENRES (10am)

Khalil:Video Essay (people who are not well versed in pop culture

Mahdi: Wikipedia Entry

Saida: Feature Article (people that use too much plastic and want to learn about the issue)

Xenia

Travion: Speech (world leaders)

Kaylee: Blog (teenagers)

Edgar: Blog (parents)

Abdul

Tehmina: Feature Article (parents)

Christopher: Social Media Posts (twitter)

Shariffe:Poem (people who addicted to gatcha games)

Geraldo: Blog

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Unijah:

Darleny:

Siraj: Social Media Posts (twitter, insta) (parents, kids)

Christian P:

Emilyah: Opinion Article

Reveena: Model Lesson that they could use in their classroom

Rudrajit: News article (people that would like to know current world events.

Noman: Blog (young people enrolling in college)

Tenzin: Blog (primary: people that work, secondary: teenagers that are looking to work in factories)

Mentor Texts (8am)

Marzan: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/honor-killings-in-america/391760/

Jamal:

Sara:

Adrian: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/10/new_study_suggests_that_playing_violent_video_games_leads_to_increased_physical_aggression

Jasmine:

Christopher: https://theconversation.com/how-creative-use-of-technology-may-have-helped-save-schooling-during-the-pandemic-146488

Wilson:

Justin F: DOES VIDEO GAMING CAUSE VIOLENCE?

Persuasion Depends Mostly on the Audience

Ahmed:

Orlando:

Alisha:

Waldy: https://ilsr.org/compost-impacts-infographic/

Justin I:

JinTeng:https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/sources-and-solutions-fossil-fuels

Christian:https://cuny-ny.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CUNY_NY/a6lp2f/cdi_swepub_primary_oai_prod_swepub_kib_ki_se_231782961

Amadou:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/us/julius-jones-oklahoma-clemency.html

Alan:

Ibrahim:

Diamond:https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-the-school-to-prison-pipeline-works

Mentor Texts (10am)

Khalil:

Mahdi: https://go-gale-com.citytech.ezproxy.cuny.edu/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=cuny_nytc&id=GALE%7CA641011979&v=2.1&it=r

Saida: https://www.worldwildlife.org/magazine/issues/fall-2019/articles/plastic-in-the-ocean

Xenia: https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/news_item/online-education-good-bad-really-right-question/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5bamjvjC9AIVGszICh3dtg4sEAAYASAAEgKXFfD_BwE

Travion: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/17/us/florida-student-emma-gonzalez-speech/index.html

Kaylee:

Edgar:

Abdul:

Tehmina: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/24/instagram-kids-faq/

Chris Lopez:

Shariffe: https://mypoeticside.com/poems/narrative-poems

Geraldo: https://kotaku.com/majora-s-mask-is-a-masterpiece-of-existential-horror-1847963798

Unijah:

Darleny:

Siraj:

Christian P.: https://splice.com/blog/adaptive-music-video-games/

Emilyah:

Reveena: https://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/reading-movies-learning-language

Rudrajit:

Noman:

Tenzin: https://www.brookings.edu/research/tax-not-the-robots/

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How can you use your mentor texts to help you? MACRO

• What kinds of articles/ stories/ media (and ads and videos for that matter) are on the site where you found the mentor text?
• What does that tell you about who they think their audience is? How do you draw that conclusion?
• How long are the pieces usually? (pages, words, minutes)?
• What is the tone, usually? (funny, serious, casual)
• How do they usually use evidence/ support (such as data, quotations, interviews, etc)?
• What can you tell us about their visual presentation? Is it all black and white text? Video with lots of graphics?
• Do you think this would be a good publication or forum to reach your intended audience? Why or why not?

How can you use your mentor texts to help you? MICRO

• What tone/ type of language does your mentor text use?
• How does this source use research? Do they quote from outside sources, use a lot of statistics, etc…
• What can you tell us about this source visually (and auditorily, if applicable)? Does it use a lot of imagery and color? Is the layout very clean? Is there a soundtrack?
• How long is it? (Words, pages, minutes)
• Who do you think is the audience of this source? What makes you think that?
• What aspects of this source would you like to emulate (use / try out) in your own writing? How might you do that?
• What aspects of this source would you like to avoid in your own writing? How will you do that?

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Write YOUR Genre Piece with Mentor Text in Mind

• Choose a tone-->Maybe a similar tone to your mentor text
• Use research→ Think about how your mentor text uses research and maybe use it in a similar way (quote from outside sources, use a lot of statistics, etc…)
• Plan / think about your layout (Is there imagery and color?Is the layout very clean? Is there a soundtrack?)
• Plan length→ Use mentor text as a model→ How long is it? (Words, pages, minutes)
• Plan how can you write it to address your chosen audience. What words / language / tone do you need to choose. Use your mentor text as a model.
• What are you going to try out from your mentor text? How will you do that?

Drafting

What do you have SO far?

Let’s put it all together

Let’s look back at Monday’s PowerPoint and start to put all the pieces together.

News Article

Fact-based, not opinion based, usually includes quotations from eye-witnesses or experts, describes a situation or event or major news story, can be in print or online

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Written in the 3rd person (he / she / they)

Lots of sources, well-cited

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Drafting a News Article / Feature Article

Purpose: What newsworthy event / issue am I reporting on? Which person / event / information will be my key focus? How can I bring the story and people to life for my readers?

Audience: Remember most newspaper readers read the first bit of an article and skim the rest, keep the most important information at the top of the article and at the start of each paragraph!

Rhetorical Appeals: How will I establish my authority as a writer? How will I logically connect my ideas and details? How will I make sure that my use of pathos does not undercut my use of ethos?

Drafting a News Article / Feature Article

Elements of the genre: How can I make it clear that I’m writing a news article? What do I have to include / do to make it look / feel / sound like a news article? Which information is important enough to my readers that I should present it first? Which information is interesting but not as important?

Style: How will I keep my tone objective and neutral? What level of detail will I include in my article? (No I, We, written in 3rd person)

Design: How will I use headers and footers, titles, headlines, tabs and other design features to keep my readers oriented? Will I embed hyperlinks? Will I embed photos and graphics?

Sources: How will I cite my sources? How will I integrate my quotes into my article?

Opinion Article

Opinion based, often include facts and statistics, but ones that support the author’s opinion (and the counterclaim! And then refute / disprove the counterclaim), they can be included in major newspapers, are often on major news events or current events, can be in print or online

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Can be written in first person (I, we). Share the author’s opinion on a topic.

Drafting an Opinion Article

Purpose: What is my purpose? And what do I want to persuade others to think / do? Do I want readers to see things from a different perspective? To take action? Do I want them to completely change their minds on an issue? How feasible is it to change a person’s mind?

Audience: Who am I trying to persuade? What are my audience’s concerns about the issue I am writing about? What do they fear? What is their stake in the issue *What do they personally have to lose or gain if they do what I want?

Rhetorical Appeals: How will I establish myself as reasonable and authoritative on the issue? How can I use organization to appeal to my audience’s sense of logos? Will my audience respond to emotional appeals or will I seem manipulative?

Drafting an Opinion Article

Elements of the Genre: How can I make it clear that I’m writing an opinion piece? How can I get my audience’s attention immediately and show them how important and relevant this issue is in their lives? Which potential objections and counter arguments should I address? How can I make the closing of my opinion article memorable?

Style: Would it help to support my case by bringing in quotes from experts? How can I keep my language persuasive, yet friendly? (can use I)

Design: Do I want to design a heading or subheading? How can I use headings and subheadings and other graphics to establish / develop my ethos?

Sources: What kinds of sources will be most useful and most interesting and most persuasive to my audience? How might I bring in sources to address potential objections / opposing arguments?

Blog

One person’s opinion on a topic, on a website/ internet, talking about someone’s personal experience. Blogs can bias or lack credibility, but they can also be credible. The medium is NOT print--they are web-based.

Drafting a Blog

Purpose: Why am I composing this piece? What do I hope it will achieve? Do I want readers to see things from a different perspective? To take action? Do I want them to completely change their minds on an issue? Do I want them to learn something new?

Audience: Who is my audience? How do they access my content? What is their stake in the issue (what do they have to gain/ lose/ learn from the issue)? What level of detail will my audience need to know? What do they already know?

Rhetorical Appeals: What experiences and evidence can I draw on to establish my credibility? Is it appropriate to emphasize pathos? How can I make the logic of my position clear?

Drafting a Blog

Elements of the Genre: How can I make it clear that I’m writing a blog? What do I have to include / do to make it look / feel / sound like a blog? Am I using the elements of the genre correctly? Do I need to look at more examples of the genre? Does it look and feel and sound like a blog?

Style: Have I used a tone that is appropriate for my audience? Will it achieve my purpose? Am I using the first person (I, me, we)? Have I chosen my words carefully?

Design: How have I captured my audience’s attention? Am I including images and hyperlinks? Does it look like a blog?

Sources: Have I incorporated sources in a way that seems appropriate for a blog? Have I cited my sources? Do my sources achieve their purpose?

Homework

• DRAFT of Project 3 and Artist’s Statement--Due Monday, December 6th
• Catch up on missed assignments!

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