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Genre
analysis
Maiden Pearl O. Maderal
BSE- English 3
 genre
Comes from the French (and originally Latin) word for
“kind” or “class”. The term is widely used in rhetoric literary
theory, media theory, and more recently linguistics, to refer
to a distinctive type of text.

Genre is a term for grouping texts together, representing

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how writers typically use language to respond to recurring

situations (Hyland, 2004)
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Genre refers to categories of texts that share the same
features: they are organized and worded in a similar
way for the same audience and with the same
purpose. Poems, news articles and lab reports are all
different genres of writing. Genres are not limited to
written texts.
 Genre analysis

The ability to identify a genre’s

defining organization, language,
intended audience and purpose.
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 Genre analysis

• Is a developing multi-disciplinary approach to the study of

texts, both verbal and written, drawing from studies in
Linguistics, Anthropology, Sociology and Psychology.

• Genre analysts look for the common patterns of grammar

usage, key vocabulary, and text structure in particular text
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types.
 What are the approaches to genre
analysis

01 Swales approach
Focuses on the moves and steps analysis
within a genre.

Australian System/functional systemicist

02 method
Focuses on the forms and functions of
language.
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03 New rhetoric
Focuses on the intention and effect of
language
 How do we analyze text using genre?
move
Is a unit that relates both to
the writer’s purpose and to
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the content that he/she wishes
to communicate.
step
Is a lower text unit than the
move that provides a detailed
perspective on the options
open to the writer in setting
out the moves in the
introduction.
SWALES’ (1990) Creating a Research
Space (CARS) Model. He analyzed the
introduction of internationally
published articles using genre analysis.
He identified the following moves and

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steps:
 Importance of genre analysis

In order to create a text within a genre we need to know its common

features. If you are asked to write a lab report, for example, you need to
be able to analyze lab reports as a genre; this will help you notice and
then replicate its organization and language in your own writing.

Depending on your academic background, you may have more or less

experience with the type of text you are asked to produce. The more
experience you have with a genre, the easier it will be for you to
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produce a similar text.

 Importance of genre analysis

By developing your ability to analyze genres, you will be giving

yourself an advantage: you will be better able to look at examples of
particular types of texts, and find more easily their defining features.
With practice, you will produce more successful texts for your
assignments. Genre analysis is, therefore, a transferable skill that will be
useful to you in your academic journey and beyond, in your professional
career.
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 “Genre Analysis add to our understanding of how language
is used within an important discourse community, and is a
model of applied linguistics in its best sense- it draws on
linguistic and sociolinguistic theory to classify the nature of
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language use and language learning in educational setting.”

—long and richards

 Thank you
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Have a Great day and Keep safe
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 references
https://www.slideshare.net/TeacherRhina/genre-analysis-5184230
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