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    English 109W Final Draft Genre Analysis Jenny Mollen, an American actress and New York best selling author, once said, “I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time” (“Jenny Mollen Quotes”, n.d.). In other words, if you are able to persuade someone, you can basically get anything you want. Today, many expert writers utilizes genre conventions to state their purpose and to persuade their audience. First of all, what is a genre convention? Genre convention is defined

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    The Classic Western genre is dead. Western films created now are not considered Classic Western, but are instead categorized in the Post-Western form. This happened because the overuse of filmic codes in the Western genre eventually led to predictability in the films. These “genre film cycles” occur because of the overuse of predictability. Film cycles are when a genre and its conventions become overused to the point of death to that specific genre. For example, if the film The Good, The Bad, and

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    1. What are some genres that you feel you know well? How did you learn them? What are their common rhetorical features? I think I know well a narrative genre of essays. Narrative style of writing is very interesting for me, because mostly it is based on real-life experience. In the past I had to write a lot of this kind of assignment. I used to practice a lot, to start write good essays. With time, I understand how I have to organize my writing assignment, and which type of vocabulary I need to use

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    a summary of the movie instead. Genre analysis is a system of analysis by which observations are made on the repeated communicative functions found in genres and on the linguistic features of these functions (Brett, 1994). Genre knowledge played an important role in helping novices understand how to produce academics, professional or educational discourse. Genre study can help to improve Chinese students’ movie

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    Genre Analysis By Aleksandar Najdovski Genre is a French word meaning ‘type or ‘kind’ (Genre, 2016). The film industry has been around for at least 100 years. The evolution of entertainment is growing rapidly through the use of media. And as these years go on, films have begun to fit into specific genres, and are important to appeal to the different types of audiences. Films can be described to genre in different types of ways, such as stars, director and narrative to help identify what genre

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    class of communicative events into genre is some shared set of communicative purpose and not similar forms or content. Swales (1990) discuss communicative purpose as a starting point for defining genre. In the case of newspaper culture columns, communicative purpose of each culture columns should be analyzed and then it will be determined if they share a set of communicative purposes and further a class of communicative events or not. The third criterion for a genre has to apply on the present features

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    My genre essay is going to be based upon the film Bowling for Columbine, which is an interactive documentary directed by Michael Moore (Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, Where to Invade Next). Michael Moore is an American filmmaker who also participates in other forms of the media such as screenwriting, journalism, acting, an author and is also a left wing activist. In this documentary, Moore brings the audience’s attention towards what he encourages to be the potential causes for the 1999 Columbine High School

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    A genre analysis of Star Wars: The Force Awakens There was much excitement, surrounding the release of the long awaited Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams 2015), which takes place thirty years after the closure of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi ((Marquand 1983). In review of the film, Peter Bradshaw commented that "JJ Abrams banishes memories of George Lucas’s prequels", describing Star Wars: The Force Awakens as an "outrageously exciting and romantic return to a world you hadn't realised you'd

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    Genre in film began as a sort of “commercial tool” which showed audiences recognizable film content in order to attract customers (Campbell and Swenson). As the film industry grew, this content began to be more specialized, allowing the audience to know exactly what to expect from the film they were seeing. For example, films within the same genre share the same myths, iconography, and conventions. This means they have similarities in aspects such as plot, characters, themes, moods, ways of doing

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    My process for creating this project was fairly simple. Upon being informed of this assignment, my gears started to turn. I asked my parents for possible ideas on my Multi-Genre project. After consulting with them, I determined my project would be dedicated to my late grandmother. Upon deciding this, immediately, different emotions were present. I started off very optimistic and elated on the calming effects the project would bring. While writing my five original pieces and working on creating the

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