1) The genre I have chosen to create my assembled text and write my essay

on is fairy tales.
Conventions
Always a lesson, 3 tries to take care of a task, usually talking animals,
usually starts with once upon a time, protagonists are usually children
Features
Talking animals, always a lack of something to start the fairytale,
usually ends with and they all lived happily ever after
Constraints
Protagonists are always children or teens, most of the time is stuck in
the past, always has to include a lesson, has a rigid structure,
Style
Very linear, very to the point, not descriptive, most of the time the
main character is male
Sources
Grimms fairytales, Afanasevs Russian Fairy Tales, Powerpoints, online
articles
Purpose
To impart a moral lesson onto the audience
Audience
Mostly children to teens
Rhetorical appeals
Ethos and pathos
Mode
Written/text, audio
Media
Print, digital, oral
2) My plan of action for composing of this text is to not only search online for
fairytales but to look at the fairytales in Grimms fairytales as well as Russian
Fairy Tale books for examples and to get an overall feel for what these types
of fairy tales will read like. There are many sources online for the more
popular fairy tales and I can even get a few of these books online or pick up
a paper copy. I also have Afanasevs Russian Fairy Tales book. The power
points and lectures I will be referencing are from a previous class I took. As
for composing my assembled text. I plan to go through and revisit my book
on Russian fairytales to see what their general components are: how they
start out, what they all are after, and how the story comes to a close. With
this information I will then cross-reference these recurring elements from the
Russian fairy tales book with the English fairy tales many people are familiar
with. Taking the most common conventions, I will work between both to
weave a fairy tale together through shared bits and pieces.
3)

My purpose for this paper will be to impart a moral lesson to my audience

and my intended audience is children and younger teens. The rhetorical
appeals I will work into the fairy tale are ethos and pathos since most fairy
tales are not based on hard facts.
4)
Some questions that I have about this project as I move forward are how am
I supposed to establish pathos and do I even need to? Is only using ethos
acceptable? Also, how do I hyperlink a passage if Im using it from a book?
Issues that I have been running into while getting everything together for
this project was really coming up with what to do in terms of referencing
materials. Im not entirely sure how to cite lectures and power points so Im
afraid of plagiarizing without meaning to. Another issue is finding a good
topic to write on. I have many different topics that I want to write about but
trying to find the most evidence to support one argument seems to be
difficult to pin down.

OUTLINE (Dont forget about movie in RUT class)

Intro:
Talk about what the conventions are of a fairy tale and include the fact
that there are many different takes on fairy tales all over the world
(introduce Russian fairy tales here).
Also talk about the purpose of fairy tales in everyday life and go into
some of what comprises this genre and how it leaches into others.
o Fairy tales contain ethics and leach out into the realms of
psychology and history
Frog princess (Psychology)
Communist Russian tales (history)
First part
Talk about the history of fairy tales, especially Russian fairy tales.
Reference the slides that are from RUT class in terms of where fairy
tales were first said to come from, also who suggested the first
fairytale was written.
Talk about how the genre has really been stuck in the past but there
are some who make efforts to update fairy tales into new forms in the
past few years.
o Example: Once upon a time (TV show)
Second Part
Talk in depth about the conventions, ect. About Fairytales
Explain the style, talk about the typical phrases and sources. Explain
about the media that texts in the genre adhere to (Ask about that
later)
Third Part
The importance of fairy tales in society
They teach children lessons in a way that they can relate to
o Main characters are always children
They span across cultures, meaning everyone has their own version of
a fairy tale, especially the common ones
o Helps to link cultures together and give a sense of togetherness
It shows an insight into cultures, what their values were at a particular
time or what their culture was like
o For example, the communist fairy tales as well as some fairy
tales in the Americas
Examples/Evidence to Fairy tales being important
Teach ethics to children
o Boy who cried wolf

o 3 little pigs
Have psychological/deeper meanings
o Frog princess
Can reveal a lot about history/culture at that time
o Communist Russian tales (the 6 that made their way in the
world)
Talks about the collective being better than individualist