What I Know About Genre

Genre is something that we are all semi familiar with. We hear about different television genres all the time as well as books. What I learned from the article Genre in the Wild is that genre can be so much bigger than that and as writers we do genre writing all the time in our daily lives even the example of Snap Chat stories came up in the article. I think what we do in this class of Radio Essay is a great way to extend our knowledge of genre and blending different genres together. For example we are doing this class as part of our academic portfolio which academic work is part of genre but in our academic work we have included a narrative essay with is a subgenre and mixed it with radio, music, interviews and all sorts of new things which can all be split up into their own genres which also have their own subgenres. I think what I basically picked up in the article is that genre writing and being able to combine them is like being able to use a different tool set and using those tools to be an overall better writer. The article said that as a normal person it' important to be aware of how to identify genre in our everyday lives, the trouble is that this opens up so many doors to what is actually genre so what I have come to determine is that genre is so mixed with other genres that it can be really difficult to actually categorise it. As writing continues to evolve along with technology I think we have a whole new world of genre on its way.

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