Due Dates:

First Draft of Second Genre Assignment Due: Wednesday, 10/25

Final Draft of Second Genre Assignment Due: Wednesday, 11/1

This assignment asks you to present your News Feature story in a different genre. In other words, you will turn your feature story into a meme, poem, GIF, drawing/illustration, poster, cartoon/comic, video, song, podcast, op-ed, short story, screenplay, speech, letter, or blog post. Whatever you do, you must create something new that’s your own; for example, if you make a meme, it’s okay to use an existing template but you must write your own text. This assignment is worth 100 points. 

By doing this assignment, you will: 

• Identify a new genre for composition
• Consider the strengths and limitations of your new genre
• Present your news feature in the new genre
• Appeal to an intended audience with the creation of your new genre
• Consider the relationship between the rhetorical situation and your rhetorical strategies 

In this assignment, you’re asked to shift genres and make the information from your feature story accessible to a different audience–one that might not ever see the feature as it stands. Remember, you wrote your feature story as though it would be published in a CCNY newspaper. Now, you want to consider a different audience of your choosing. You will need to decide: 

• Who the new audience is and why 
• Why this audience needs to hear your message (i.e. the information from your feature story, presented in a new way) 
• What genre will connect best with this new audience 
• What rhetorical choices will make sense for and appeal to the new genre and the new audience 

The final step in the assignment is a 3-5 minute presentation. A sign up sheet will be distributed in class, and presentations will happen in class on 11-8 and 11-15. Your presentation is worth 100 points. 

The requirements of the presentations are that you compare the shift between your two genres (i.e. the written news feature and your second genre), talk about the rhetorical choices you made to appeal to your intended audiences, and stick to the 3-5 minute time frame. A more formal rubric will be handed out before the presentations. 

One last thing…

You are encouraged to visit the Writing Center for any and all coursework. WC visits also count as grade “bump-ups” in our class! If you visit the WC for this assignment (in person, on Zoom, or asynchronously), please have the WC send a confirmation email to Prof. Gandhi and she will “bump up” your grade accordingly 🙂