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Keventon Davis Professor Wolcott ENC 1102 MWF 12:30 1:30 20 September 2013 Genre Analysis: Rough Draft According to Devitt, genre is the response to a rhetorical situation in a discourse community. Which means a situation must have occurred enough times to have a specific way to respond to it every time. Bawarshi stated that a discourse community is built on the premise that what we know and do is connected to the language we use. With the use of genre analysis we can begin to recognize how "lived textualities" interact with and transform "lived experiences." The writers of journal Neurology uses a specific genre in their articles to show the way they interact with each other throughout their discourse community. I will be analyzing the use of genre within three Neurology articles. A common similarity between all three articles is the way they all use the same color text. The use of black ink shows a sign of professionalism and lack of flexibility. All three article use the same green ink for their sub-headings throughout their articles. Each article uses these subheading to break up the article into sections. For example, Clardy breaks up her article five sections: Training Opportunities in Neuroimmunology, Career Prospects in Neuroimmunology, Acknowledgement, Disclosure, and References. The other two articles follows this set up, but not exactly. They include the acknowledgement, disclosure and references sections in their articles as well, and placed in the article in the same order, but they also have different headings because of the topic of their articles.

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Since these are articles written by experts in their field there will be a great amount of appealing to ethos and logos, but not pathos. Its customary for academic articles to not appeal to pathos. They should not be conveying their emotions about what they accomplished or what they discovered. Their main reason for writing their article is to inform us about a particular subject without ant bias. In this case, the Neurology articles are written to tell us what occurring in Neurology. The authors of these article use the people in their reference section to build their credibility. All of these articles provide information in the form of a table. In Emerging Subspecialties: Neuroinformatics there is a table displaying a list of ongoing projects and resources for Neuroinformatics research. With all these similarities there are a few differences between the articles. For instance, with Teleneurology Application there are two different font sizes. The abstract of the article has a specific font while the rest of the article has the same font style as the other two articles. This was probably done so readers are not mislead on what part of the article is the abstract. There must have been a situation along those lines that they felt that the need to change the font to show the difference between the abstract from the rest of the article. This same article provides a detailed glossary providing a definition for some of the medical terminology. These articles were not too difficult to find and they are free. This tells us that this discourse community is has made these document easy enough to read if you have some type of background using medical jargon. I also noticed that these article were written by wellestablished doctors thin there field of study. Meaning that there must be some type of hierarchy to is allowed to write and publish articles. Since this is an online article you must have internet to be a part of this community.

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Works Cited Clardy, Stacey L. Emerging Subspecialties in Neurology: Neuroimmunology. Neurology 80(7) (2012): 670-676. Medline. Web. 20 Sept. 2013. Hannawi, Yousef MD; and Smirnakes, Stelios M. PhD. Emerging Subspecialties: Neuroinformatics. Neurology 80 (2013): 166-168. Medline. Web. 20 Sept. 2013 Wechsler, Lawrence R. MD; Tsao, Jack W. MD; Levine, Steven R. MD; Swain-Eng, Rebecca J. MS; Adams, Robert J.MS,MD; Demaerschalk, Bart M. MD, MSc; Hess, David C. MD; Moro, Elena MD, PhD; Schwamm, Lee H. MD; Steffenson, Steve MD; Stern, Barney J. MD, FAAN; Zuckerman; Steven J. MD, FAAN; Bhattacharya, Pratik MD, MPH; Davis, Larry E. MD; Yurkiewicz, Ilana BS; Alphonso, Aimee L. BS. Teleneurology Applications: Report of the Telemedicine Work Group of the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology 80 (2013): 670676. Medline Web. 20 Sept. 2013 Devitt, Amy J., Anis Bawarshi, and Mary Jo Reiff. "Materiality and Genre in the Study of Discourse Communities." 65.5 (2003): 541-557. Web. 20 Sept. 2013 Swales, John M. "2.2 Speech Communities and Discourse Communities." Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings. Cambridge [England: Cambridge UP, 1990. 23-24. Print. 20 Sept. 2013 Devitt, A.J. Generalizing about Genre: New Conceptions of an Old Concept. College Composition and Communication, Vol. 44 1993, pgs.573-584. Print.