1. Reiff talks about making genre related and how that is how students get interested in it. Do you think that genres is the easiest concept for students to because it brings everything together that they been doing all semester or is it because of this relatability factor?
2. Maybe it was just me, but it seemed that Devitt was criticizing form and content as it pertains to genre, choosing to favor the rhetorical situation. I understand his stance on it, and agree but isn't form and content needed for the rhetorical situation to be identifiable? I get that Devitt talks about audience changing and defining genre by isn't that in response to form and content? I don't know, maybe I overlooked something or just confused. :) Clarification would be great as well if my question is irrelevant.
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ReplyDeleteHey Antonio,
ReplyDeleteI definitely had some mixed success teaching genre today. My tactic was to disorient the students by having them engage with media that didn't have a clear classification: media that fused several different genres and media that was tonally ambiguous. I did this as a means of gauging the students' analytical skills and so they would have practice deconstructing genre in order to make the analysis required of their rationales more effective and thoughtful, and even though I was successful, the feedback I got from the students was that they were even more confused about the concept and the possibilities or limits of genre than they were before, so I guess I was surprised to see how easy it was to throw out the relatability factor, or how much resistance I initially got from the students for what felt like asking them to do the analysis they'd been doing the whole semester.