Genre Applications in Education

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In this article, the writer analyzes the basis for genre standardizations that would include both a normative approach and adaptive approach in educational research and application. The writer notes that by realizing the importance of normative genres in language studies, students can better understand how to categorize various issues in writing. However, the writer maintains that these normative standards cannot be so heavily relied upon that they deny new genres of significant importance. In essence, the writer argues that a balanced approach to normative and adaptive genre applications must be adhered to in an effective writing criterion for modern educational perspectives.

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"Critics of normative genre approaches in writing provide important arguments that explain why genre studies norms must be provide a form of standardization that must be adhered to. The premise of normative standards is only providing an outline for the growingly diverse set of genre studies that have arisen in the new globalized community. Many more cultural norms and values are being expressed, which reestablish the normative ways in which people think and write. However, the premise of normative genre values is essential for various cultures to establish their cultural identity, which provides the foundation in which to understand other cultures and genre-based evaluations. This perspective is helping teachers to understand the complexities of genre studies. Devitt defines this critical stance in educational standards that is important to realizing why genre categorizations can be dangerous to effective critical thinking, yet they are needed to establish a basis for localized identity issues for the educational scholar.."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bazerman, Charles. The Life of the Genre, the Life of the Classroom. (Customer fill in rest of bibliography, I was only sent the file).
• Caudrey, Tim. Increasing students' awareness of genre through text transformation exercises: An old classroom activity revisited. 2006. TESL-EJ, Vol.3, No.3, 1998. Berkeley College Database. 9 April, 2007. <http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESl-EJ/ej11/a2.html>
• Devitt, Amy. "Genre as Language Standard." (Customer fill in rest of bibliography, I was only sent the file).

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