2. How do you feel about Reiff's "anti genres" (page 162)? How do you see using this type of response in class?
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Reiff questions - Liz :)
1. Reiff stresses an importance for instructors to move beyond simply teaching genre as form. For one, if we teach genre as simply a template to fill, then students will be less likely to take risks like they are encouraged to in project three. How do you think you can get your students to this point of taking risks in writing and genres?
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Hi Liz, in response to your second question, I was wondering the same thing. If we are asking students to critically analyze the effects and origins of genre conventions, it only makes sense that we would ask them to take it a step further and try their hand at an alternative. I can see this being a great opportunity to look at a model (for example, the legal case briefs vs. a memoir or documentary), and also a great way to frame the remediation project (get them to analyze and take issue with one of the genres they used, and create an alternative). However, I was confused by whether she meant engaging in a different/antithetical genre, reshaping the existing genre, or making up a new genre (which I'd like to see an example of to be able conceptualize).
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