Genre Conventions

 Entry 16: 

Research, Reflections

Topic: Genre Conventions

What are genre conventions? 

    Genre conventions are story elements, all the little things that allow us to distinguish what the genre is. Each genre has specific story elements that allow the readers to distinguish what genre they are reading, this is a genre convention (the elements, structures, formulas). A way to figure out what the genre of something is, figure out the story (action), plot, character, and the setting- this should tell you the genre. 

    Each genre imposes certain conventions, the choice determines what is possible to do within the story. That means that there will be conventional settings, events and roles specific to the genre. Genre has visceral appeal to its readers/audience. 

This picture gives an example of genre conventions. 

In this link: writingstudio, they talk about conventional settings, events and roles in the crime genre.     Further explaining genre conventions: 

Conventional settings: the setting of the murder will have its particular characteristics.

Conventional events: there must be a crime

Conventional roles: there will be a detective character that discovers clues and suspects 

(Dercksen,Daniel).

This is important because if someone is writing they should know their audience and what genre they are writing about. Making sure to follow exactly what their genre typically contains. As writers there is a wide range of genres, knowing the differences and the characteristics of genres is a key factor to success. 

Breaking Barriers

Entry 15:

Research, Reflection

Topic: Breaking mental barriers

I     have used this article before but it talks about several different things, each are important in writing. According the article that I am using for this blog, it says that we need to break mental barriers to writing. 

Most important tips from article- blog.typeset

In order to break mental barriers: 

1. Practice every day, write 1,000 words a day about your topic. Each day you will find new and better ways to talk about your topic. 

2. Being resistant at first with your writing. 

3. Your writing should reflect your struggles 

4. Good writers are also typically good readers, just do not copy their writing style- make sure to keep your own voice. 

5. Let writing assist your thought process, the more you write the better quality you will produce. 

    I think it is important to note all of the ways to use our thoughts and writing into more effective and efficient work. We write and read every day in texts, emails, or schoolwork. So we should know how to get out of our heads to get writing done. These tips can be used for other classes or any type of writing. If you are unsure what to say, just start saying it and edit later. According to the article, in order to get out of your head and write good, you should struggle and be resistant. It is important to keep your mind active by writing every day about a specific topic or anything. 

How to become good at academic research writing?

 Entry 14: 

Research, Multimodal Design:

Topic: How to become good at academic research writing? 

    In this article, it tells us how we can become good at academic research writing. Listing 5 things to do to achieve excellence in this. 

1. Collect as many references as possible- read them through thoroughly. Understanding and having multiple academic resources helps to write good papers as you will understand your topic more in depth. 

2. Use your research writing process as a way of thinking. Find alternative methods to explaining your concept more. 

3. Give a review of the best papers in your domain. Write a one page summary and be able to answer questions about them in the summary. Be able to publish what you write about. 

4. Share your paper with friends and peers. Ask them questions: "what did you understand?" this should show if you gave a clear, concise explanation of your topic.

5. Write the way you talk. Record yourself explaining your research, see what people understand and write about it. 

6. Weed out unnecessary parts from your research. 

    As we work on academic research writing, I thought it was important to note what is good and what isn't. Tips on how to do better. Gathering research on what others find useful for them when writing and then practicing different methods. I often ask friends who have no idea what I am talking about to read over my work because if they can guess the main points of my argument or explanations then I did a good job explaining what I needed to. I have never tried summarizing what I read in a review format, I guess I should try that. 

Link: blog.typeset