ENC 1102: Genre Analysis worksheet.

For this first installment in genre analysis, please read across three samples of your genre to understand the situation,
rhetorical appeals, and structure. You dont need to make a fully-fledged argument yet. Rather, this is about getting to know
the genre little by little. Looking closely at your genre, please describe the situation and fill in the chart based on the appeals
and structure of your genre samples. BE VERY SPECIFIC. Very close analysis is the name of the game for this paper. In other
words, you might cite pages where possible, describe visually what the printed pages look like, etc.
1. What is your genre?
Academic articles in an economic journal
2. What is the (repeated) situation that this genre is a rhetorical response to?
Discussing or informing others about hot topics in the economic field
3. Please fill out this chart with observations and evidence from your texts.

Question about
Rhetorical
Feature
Appeals
What appeals
to logos,
pathos, ethos
appear?

Evidence:
What counts as
evidence in this
d.c.? How is it
demonstrated

Genre
Sample 1
Hedge
Funds
Logos:
Citing
different
articles and
sources.
Graphs and
statistics.
Pathos:
Collapses of
hedge funds
could impact
the entire
stock market
negatively.
Ethos:
Qualification
s listed at
bottom of
first page.
Citing
articles,
using
statistics
and graphs.

Genre Sample
2
Top Wealth
Shares
Logos: Citing
different
articles and
sources.
Pathos: Talks
about the
unfair income
of the top 1
percent. Talks
about lower
mortality rates
for the wealthy.
Ethos:
Qualifications
listed at the
bottom of the
first page.
Citing articles,
using statistics
and graphs. A
lot of
percentages

Genre
Sample 3
College
Athletes
Logos: Citing
different
articles and
sources.
Pathos:
College
athletes
arent
included in
labor laws.
The ways the
NCAA
controls
players.
Ethos:
Qualifications
listed at the
bottom of the
first page.
Citing
articles,
using
statistics and
tables.

Combined Features
that occur across
all samples
Genre Features
Citing articles and
sources,
qualifications listed
at the bottom of
the first page.

Speculate on what these

rhetorical features can tell
us about the situation?

Citing articles and

statistics. Using
percentages and
numbers. Has a list
of references.

The community uses a lot

of numbers and statistics
which are used to show the
reader what they are
talking about.

People in the discourse

community value credible
authors. They want to see
where the information is
coming from.

in the texts?

Use of
Highlighting:
how does the
text make parts
stand out? Why
are the parts
that do stand
out
highlighted?

Structure
How is this text
organized?

Structure
What are its

This articles
has a lot of
percentages
and
numbers. It
also uses a
graph and
has a long
list of
references.
Different
subsections
are bolded.
There is a
graph with
different
colors. The
bolded
sections
allow you to
know what
you will be
reading
about in the
next section
and the
different
colors on the
graph allow
you to track
the growth
of different
types of
stocks.
It is an
article that
is broken
down into
different
sections.
It has an
opening

and numbers.
Uses multiple
graphs and has
a list of
references.

Percentages
and numbers
and list of
references.

Different
subsections are
bolded. There
are graphs with
different
colors. The
bolded sections
allow you to
know what you
will be reading
about in the
next section
and the
different colors
on the graphs
allow you to
track the
growth of
different types
of stocks.

Different
subsections
are bolded.
There is a
table that is
bolded as
well. The
bolded words
allow you to
know what
you will be
reading about
next.

Subsections are
bolded. Use of
visual aid.

Visual aids are used in

order to illustrate the
points to the audience. The
subsections are used to
divide the paper into
different parts and its
important for the reader to
understand when the topic
is changing.

It is an article
that is broken
down into
different
sections.

It is an article
that is broken
down into
different
sections.

An article broken
down into different
sections.

The community values

academic writing.

It is broken
down into

It is broken
down into

Broken down into

different sections.

References and footers are

used to show credibility

parts?
(what does that
tell you about
the d.c.?)

section that
talks about
what hedge
funds are. It
continues
with
different
sections and
ends with a
conclusion
and list of
references.
It also has
footers at
the bottom
of some
pages. This
makes me
believe that
the d.c.
values
credibility
and facts.

different
sections. It
ends with a
conclusion and
list of
references. It
has footers at
the bottom of
some pages.
This makes me
believe that the
d.c. values
credibility and
facts.

different
sections. It
ends with a
list of
references
and has
footers at the
bottom of
some pages.
It shows that
the d.c.
values
credibility
and facts.

List of references.
Uses some footers.

which is important to this

community. The sections
allow the reader to better
understand the text.