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Meeting new people and asking them on a dateDating can be intimidating; the humiliation of Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Font color:
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being rejected or messing up a very vulnerable moment and opens the person up to getting hurt. Formatted: Font color: Auto
Online dating profiles are a much less stressful way for people to be active in the slightest is Auto
unbearable for some. Traditional dating is not for everyone, and new genres of dating have since
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emerged to aid people in finding a romantic partner. Withscene. Due to the extreme technological Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Font color:
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advances in the last few decades, most homescomputers are a staple in almost every home in Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Font color:
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America are now equipped with computers and most individuals have smartphones . Most people Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Font color:
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even have smart phones attached at the hip.to their hips. The convenience of everyday technology Formatted ...
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is the perfect platform for the newest genre of dating to take place online dating.. Online dating is
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a great way to relieve the stress of dating, it is simple, convenient, and can provide instant Formatted ...
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gratification, and takes the fear of public embarrassment out of the picture. . Online dating iscreated a Formatted ...
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completely new genre for this generation;in dating, online dating profiles. The conventions used
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are entirelyfound in online dating profiles are very different from the conventions of its Formatted ...
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antecedent genres, traditional dating and speed dating. Online dating profiles are a new genre, Formatted ...
with its own conventions and rhetorical situations that are distinctly different from the antecedent Formatted ...
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genres because the rhetorical situation has changed. Prior genres of dating include , speed dating and Formatted ...
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going to a bar to find a date, although both influenced online dating and led to its development. dating.
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The rhetorical situations and conventions for online dating have evolved with advances in technology, Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Font color:
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and online dating has become a streamlined process to finding a date. There are some similarities led
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to the changes in genre conventions and rhetorical situations, creating a new genre in the
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conventions and overall genres of online dating and its two antecedent genres; However, the significant
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One may be wondering the definitions of genre and rhetorical situation. A genre is a group of Auto
text that shares similar traits, that set it apart from other groups. ItsThese defining featurestraits Auto
make it athe text part of one group but exclude it from another. Janet Boyd’s definition of a genre
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in her article Murder (Rhetorically Speaking) in my own interpretation is, “when the traits or Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Font color:
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attributes considered normal to or typical of a particular kind of creative piece…” (Boyd 97). A Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Font color:
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rhetorical situation is essentiallythe affect the author, audience, and subject’s effectsubject have on Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Font color:
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how athe piece is written. Online dating has a different of writing. Changing the audience, author, or Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Italic, Font
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subject can change the rhetorical situation completely, even changing the entire genre. The Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Font color:
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antecedent genres are completely different genres that came before the genre being discussed. In Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Font color:
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this case the antecedent genres are bar dating and speed dating because they are different genres, Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Font color:
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but both led to the creation of this new genre. The conventions than its antecedents. The program
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Tinder is theare the words used in each specific genre that help you identify the work as being part
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of a specific genre. The genre conventions are constant among texts within the genre, almost as if Formatted ...
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they are required when writing in a specific genre. Conventions can vary slightly within a genre, Formatted ...
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like between different dating apps, but the writings still contain the major conventions of the
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The most well-known dating site/ and app is Tinder. It is known to be used primarily for Formatted ...
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hookups but can be used for serious relationships as welltoo. Bumble is another popular dating
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site and app that is like Tinder; Except that . Bumble only lets the females must reach out to males Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Font color:
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rather than the traditional reversed scenario.the guys, which is unique among the popular dating Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Not Italic,
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sites. Tinder and Bumble’s Bumble base their matches are based on algorithms, and that are Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Font color:
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designed to make the most popular pages are given to you as potential matches. Thismatch with the Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Font color:
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most people. The algorithm changes the tactics people wouldthese sites use in their bios. For Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Font color:
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example, the rhetorical situations might change to appeal to a more widespread audience. Bios can
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include humorous remarks or factsmake people construct their bio’s in the most effective way
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possible. A bio is a short description of yourself attempting to catch somebodies’ interest. Bio’s
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usually have a word limit, so you must be choppy, concise, and purposeful. Bio’s need to hook
the opposite sex,be very effective in order to become popular and increase your chances of Auto
finding a match. There are websites that tell you how to structure your bio to become a very Auto
popular account and better your odds of finding a match. Here is an example from athe website Auto
designedhas to aidhelp you in makingdesign a successful bios is as follows:funny and effective bio, Auto
“Premium Cat Facts available on request. I’m six feet, 6’6 in heels, and 8’4 in stilts. I have ten Auto
suits so I make a great plus one for your summer weddings. I enjoy exploring, eating out, Auto
meeting new people and, and the Oxford comma. My dog hates pictures. I have multiple Auto
passports, but I’m not a spy. Tell me where you need residency, and I’ll marry you there to get
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you in” (10 Most Successful Tinder Bio Examples for Guys). Biographies including ”.1 All biographies Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Font color:
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follow this one fit this widemass appeal rhetorical situation. They are designed to have mass appeal Formatted: Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Font color:
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must have a biography that appeals to a lot of people who see their posts. In speed dating, the
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Cilas, Jasmin. “10 Most Successful Tinder Bio Examples for Guys.” Insider Monkey,
www.insidermonkey.com/blog/10-most-successful-tinder-bio-examples-for-guys-482768/.
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rhetorical situation was not mass appeal but. The more people that find your bio interesting, the
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time. are. These rules and strategies to making bios are what set online dating profiles apart as a
separate genre.
What are conventions and what do they have to do with online dating? Well, conventions
are simply the types of words that are used in the rhetorical situation, the lingo if you will. The
conventions of a genre are specific to the rhetorical situation and are part of what defines the
genre. In online dating, the conventions can vary slightly with each different person’s tactics.
Some people take a comical approach, or a serious approach, and even wild, straight forward
approaches, all of which have the same concise, short, and choppy format. An example of these
short, choppy bios is on a Tinder Bio Examples website, “taller than you in heels. Love positive
people, quirks, good wine, Italian food, tense movies, live music, decadent, open to most things,
but let’s start with a casual date. Comes with one free dog” (10 Most Successful Tinder Bio
Examples for Guys). This is an example of the conventions of online dating. It differs from speed
dating because you would use complete sentences, you would be carrying a full one conversation
rather than advertising yourself with limited words, like in online dating. Speed dating
conventions would be a more rushed, attempt to get to know somebody, while still using
complete sentences, and interacting with the other person. Bar dating conventions would be more
smooth, paced, and natural flowing interactions. The conventions of speed dating are based on
the audience of one person at a time, with a context of being limited to 5 minutes before another
person gets a chance to impress the same person. The conventions of bar dating are based on the
audience of one person in total, whom you have unlimited time with, and the context being your
attempt to impress and connect with one person. In retrospect, the conventions of online dating
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are based on a large audience that is scrolling by your profile, the context being your attempt to
grab their attention from the hundreds of profiles they are scrolling through. The differences in
conventions between the antecedents and online dating are significant reasons as to why it is a
separate genre.
In an interview with my mother, Cassandra Bianchi, about the new genre of online dating
and its antecedents she gave some very insightful information; When asked about the intended
audience of online dating she gave an almost shocking response, saying it was intended for “shy
people who can hide behind a screen”. She also notes that “once the internet was in every home,
it became convenient to date from your living room.” Another prior genre of dating, speed
dating, is when eight guys and eight girls go to a restaurant, and each guy gets 5 minutes with
each girl to talk to them and see if they are interested. At the end of the event, the guys can go up
to the girl they are most interested in to talk some more, and potentially exchange numbers. This
rhetorical situation is similar to online dating because you have a short time, or limited word
count in your bio, to get somebody interested. The rhetorical situation is different, however,
because online dating is not one on one, face to face, but rather to a large mass of unknown
people. Finding a date by going to a bar is a different rhetorical situation than online dating, as
well. In a bar, you are not forced to sit together for five minutes like speed dating, it’s more like
online dating in the sense that it is your own choice who you talk to and for how long. Just like
speed dating, bar dating is one on one, which alters your rhetorical situation. Due to these
differences in rhetorical situations, online dating is its own genre.
All in all, it is apparent that online dating has become its own genre. With its own specific conventions
The antecedent genres are speed dating and bar dating. Speed dating is when eight girls
and eight guys go to a restaurant the event is being held at. Each girl sits at a separate table and
each guy gets 5 minutes at each table to talk to the girls and see if they are interested in each
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other. If anyone hits it off, then after the event they can go up to each other and exchange phone
numbers. The rhetorical situation of speed dating is like online dating profiles because they both
have a short time in order to interest the other person. The rhetorical situations are different
because online dating profiles are not one on one, but rather to a large mass of unknown people.
Bar dating’s rhetorical situation is more like online dating profiles than speed dating because you
get to choose who you talk to and for how long, but online dating has a much wider selection and
requires you to use more mass appeal conventions. The conventions of a genre are always
tailored towards the intended audience.
The rhetorical situation is the relationship between the author, the audience, and subject,
and their effect on the context the piece is written in. If any part of this triangle is changed, then
the whole genre could change. For example, the differences between online dating profiles and
speed dating are in the relationship between audiences. The audience of speed dating is
predetermined and limited to the number of girls or guys that signed up. The audience does not
change once everyone is signed up. In speed dating you only get 5 minutes to talk to each person,
and this changes the context the audience and author interact in. The audience of online dating is
the millions of people using the dating app. In online dating the profiles only let you write up to a
certain word limit, changing the context the audience and author interact in. These differences
between audiences and the context the audience and author interact in change the genre
completely.
Another reason online dating profile are different genres than speed dating and bar
dating is the audience is different for all three. The audience for online dating profiles are any
person of the intended gender using the app or site. The audience for speed dating is the person
at the other side of the table, and the audience for bar dating is the person at the bar you are
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interested in. In an interview with my mother, Cassandra Bianchi, I asked her about the intended
audience of online dating, and her response was shocking. She says online dating profiles are for
“shy people who can hide behind a screen”, and noted, “once the internet was in every home it
became convenient to date from your living room”. Online dating is relatively new, especially
for someone who was alive before the internet, so the reality that it is extremely popular among
the younger generations was surprising to my mom.
Online dating profiles are a new genre. They have their own conventions, and rhetorical
situations that set it apart from its antecedent genres, online dating is a genre that grew from
speed dating, and bar dating, and new technologies.. The major changes in conventions and
rhetorical situations occurred as the formality of audiences prevent online dating profiles from
being the same genre as bar dating changed with the convenience and availability of the and
speed dating. New technological universeadvances allowed dating to evolve. Now you can date
from the comfort of your own couch, getting your profile out to millions of people. Online dating
has opened new doors for shy, lazy, and informal people. Online dating is a great new way to
find potential matches and has completely changed the act of dating. While traditional people,
allowing them to talk over the internet before meeting in person. Traditional dating is still an
essential aspect of developing connections, the technological aspect ofdating, but online dating
has already found a home in every relationship.the dating scene. Texting and, social media, and
online dating profiles have made a massive change in the way relationships are made and kept.
Online dating is becoming increasingly popular but, whether it is a fad or a staple of dating, it
has become its own genre.
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Nick Bianchi Style Definition: Normal (Web)

differences in rhetorical situations, online dating is its own genre.

tailored towards the intended audience.

the younger generations was surprising to my mom.

has become its own genre.

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