Analysis Of Dwyane Lowery: Finding Literate Identity Through Genres

was “ In a study of clerical work through the first half of the twentieth century, Anderson (1986) estimated that secretaries might encounter up to 97 different genres in the course of doing dictation or transcription.”(Page 18) What this quote says to me is that genre is so broad and there are so many of them, that to put a single definition on what can or can’t be described as a genre could be very difficult. We talk about genre as non-fiction, fiction or fantasy but we don’t realize that they can also be emails, texts or social media posts. These are types of writing no one associates genre with but happen to fall into that defintion. Reading an excerpt in class I picked out a quote that was from the article “What writing does and how

I explained the connection by using quotes from the articles we have read and knowledge I learned in class. I used explanations that are most understandable to me and the reader while still getting the same knowledge of the

My controlling purpose of this essay was “Usually your literate identity is most shown through the genres you write.” I used this as my controlling purpose because it gives the readers an idea as to what the essay will be about. I then start to elaborate and try to explain the reasoning for my definition on genre and how I came across it. I used information from multiple assignments to come up with this definition, “Genre is a category that is placed on music, books and films.” I used this definition because I believe it's the most impactful towards my controlling purpose and the term genre. After using my own knowledge to come up with a definition I decide to use a quote from Debra Brandt to add more support and depth into my essay. I used the quote, "In a study of clerical work through the first half of the twentieth century, Anderson (1986) estimated that secretaries might encounter up to 97 different genres in the course of doing dictation or transcription.” This quote really gives the reader an idea of how many genres their actually are and that there can be multiple genre definitions to cover the abundance of genres that exist. I then move onto another quote but this time from Bazerman, “Recognizable, self-reinforcing forms of communication emerge as genres.” I use this quote to explain to the reader that