I have found literary genre in Political Issues that I thought was interesting. Political issues may be the topic , but when it comes to genres I have found 3 Political issues that can be considered as genres. These issues are drugs, crime, and education. I know your probably thinking to your self whats genre right? I know that when you heard the word "genre" the first thing that probably came to your head was music genres. Well I'm here to tell you that, thats not the only kind of genres. Genre can be any thing that can be written in texual form.
The first political issue that I have found to be a genre is "Drugs". This issue can be considered a genre because I have found different ways people writes about "drug abuse" or "war on drugs". For example I have found a mini article about Bernie Sanders agreeing with rapper Jayz about ending the war on drugs. Rapper Jayz had tweeted " The war on drugs is an epic fail. Why are white men poised to get rich doing the same thing African Americans been going to prison for?". (us news.com). Bernie Sanders replied to that tweet "Jayz is right we need to end the war on drugs".
The war on drugs exploded the U.S prison population disproportionately locking away blacks and latinos. Our prison population grew more then 900 percent. When the war on drugs began in 1971 the prison population was at 200,000. Today it is over 2,000,000. The article stated "Venture capitalists migrate to [states where marijuana has been legalized] to open multibillion dollar operations, but former felons can't open a dispensary," Jay Z continues. "Lots of times, those felonies were drug charges caught by poor people who sold drugs for a living but are now prohibited from participating in one of the fastest-growing economies" http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-15/bernie-sanders-backs-jay-z-call-to-end-war-on-drugs
The second political issue that I have found to be a genre is crime rate. I have found another form of writing about this topic. Which makes it a genre. I have found another article about this topic that was on Cleveland.com. The article stated that CLEVELAND, Ohio - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has made violent crime in American cities a major issue in his campaign. Inner cities, he says, are a "living hell" of increasing violence and homicide". Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton says the opposite. In the first debate on Sept. 26, she said, "Violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991." The question you might wanna know is who is right? Well in a weird way both of them are right.! Trump is correct because in some cities the violent crime rat has went up in 2014, 2015, and 2016. Clinton is correct that while the numbers have spiked in some major cities, the national trend shows a steady decrease over several decades.http://www.cleveland.com/articles/19556546/do_you_feel_safe_donld_trump_hillary_clinton.amp
The third political issue that i found to be a genre is "education". Education is a big part of America's political issues. I decided that this issue was a genre because I have found a couple different ways people write about education. I have found a news paper article that talks about why American students are falling behind. (USnews.com). In the article it stated that the fact that the nation’s high school graduation rate this year rose
to the highest rate in three decades, that college enrollment has grown,
particularly for Hispanic students, and that fourth and eighth graders
saw small gains in both reading and math on the 2013 National Assessment
of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card, which was
released Nov. 7. A secretary named Arne Ducan stated “In a knowledge-based, global economy, where education is more important
than ever before, both to individual success and collective prosperity,
our students are basically losing ground,” Duncan said. “We’re running
in place, as other high performing countries start to lap us.”http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/12/03/american-students-fall-in-international-academic-tests-chinese-lead-the-pack
Now I know your probaly thinking what makes all these genres "genres"? Well I have found different conventions and terms in writing that makes these genres "genres".
1.Rhetorical writing
2.Logos
3.Conventions
4.Ethos
5.Pathos
I know if your new to genres and your looking at this list of words your probably thinking to your self what the hell do those mean?! These are just some of the terms you can use to check if a peice of writing is a genre.
All these articles all had theses terms in common. I would say that all the aritcles had rhetorical writing in them. Rhetorical writing is when a writer is trying to persude you through writing. All three of the articles were trying to persude the reader to belive what they were talking about in the article. Whats the purpose of the article if it cant be persuasive? The articles also showed examples of Logos. Logos is when it is apeeling to the audience sense of logic, facts, and satisistics. In all three articles they were showing examples of satisitics and facts based on research. These articles also showed different conventions. Conventions are the ingrediants or charicteristics to identify a text. The article showed conventions by having different aproaches and appels to the audince. The articles had different forms of writing that makes up these coventions. Ethos played a part in these articles too. Ethos is the credibility of a writer or rhetor. These articles all gave credibility to the writers in the beginning of each article. The last thing I noticed these articles had in common was Pathos. Pathos is reading something that evolks emotion. All the genres I picked all are major issues in america. People actully care about these things. For a person to care about these things such as my self, reading these articles evolked emotion because I can relate to all these genres in real life.
Now I know your probaly thinking what makes all these genres "genres"? Well I have found different conventions and terms in writing that makes these genres "genres".
1.Rhetorical writing
2.Logos
3.Conventions
4.Ethos
5.Pathos
I know if your new to genres and your looking at this list of words your probably thinking to your self what the hell do those mean?! These are just some of the terms you can use to check if a peice of writing is a genre.
All these articles all had theses terms in common. I would say that all the aritcles had rhetorical writing in them. Rhetorical writing is when a writer is trying to persude you through writing. All three of the articles were trying to persude the reader to belive what they were talking about in the article. Whats the purpose of the article if it cant be persuasive? The articles also showed examples of Logos. Logos is when it is apeeling to the audience sense of logic, facts, and satisistics. In all three articles they were showing examples of satisitics and facts based on research. These articles also showed different conventions. Conventions are the ingrediants or charicteristics to identify a text. The article showed conventions by having different aproaches and appels to the audince. The articles had different forms of writing that makes up these coventions. Ethos played a part in these articles too. Ethos is the credibility of a writer or rhetor. These articles all gave credibility to the writers in the beginning of each article. The last thing I noticed these articles had in common was Pathos. Pathos is reading something that evolks emotion. All the genres I picked all are major issues in america. People actully care about these things. For a person to care about these things such as my self, reading these articles evolked emotion because I can relate to all these genres in real life.
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