Erin Frost
Frost shares a narrative of doing genre research about quad charts from a technical writing perspective, using online resources and scholarly research.
Sarah M. Lushia
Making Pictures Talk: The Journey of Learning a New Genre
Lushia shares a narrative of doing genre research about audio descriptions using accessibility websites, and then teaching audio descriptions in a college writing class.
Patrick Donlan
Describing Torches Along Our Beach at Night: What I Learned about Writing Audio Descriptions
Donlan shares a narrative of learning to write audio descriptions as a genre, receiving and revising based on feedback, and publishing an audio description of a piece of artwork.
M. Irene Taylor
Taylor shares a narrative of what she learned about writing and herself by practicing the personal essay as a genre.
Anjanette Riley
Riley shares a narrative of how she learned that grammar rules are not universal, through writing for a new situation as a journalist.
Pankaj Challa
Real World Writing: Meet the Screenplay
Challe analyzes screenplays as a genre and identifies genre conventions using a scene from the Coen brothers’ film “Miller’s Crossing.”
Eileen Wiedbrauk
Wiedbrauk breaks down the genre conventions of memoir writing using examples from personal essays.
Courtney Schoolmaster
Follow the Bread Crumbs: Adhering to the Conventions of a Genre
Schoolmaster breaks down the genre conventions of magazine and newspaper writing using examples from feature articles.
Susana Rodriguez
Reading Visual Texts: A Bullet for Your Arsenal
Rodriguez analyzes advertisements as a genre and identifies multimodal elements from Apple ads, like images, colors, composition, and placement.
Joyce R. Walker
Walker describes cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) as a framework for investigating writing as an activity, using CHAT terms to unpack how complex literate activity is in our everyday lives.
Andrew Taylor
What Do Video Games and Writing have in Common?
Taylor describes what playing video games and writing have in common as activities that ask us to think about our audiences, learn from others, and identify specific goals.
Amy Newday
It’s a stoplight; it’s a spring; it’s a semicolon!
Newday describes some perspectives on grammar and punctuation as writing activity using quotations from people who have written about grammar and punctuation throughout history.
Gina Cooke
Cooke traces some histories of how language about writing and learning have come to be over time from the perspective of a linguist.
Heidi Guth Bowman
“Good Enough”: Getting the Writing Written and Letting It Go
Bowman shares a narrative about her writing history, including getting started, getting advice, and learning when to let things go.