Purpose This assignment assesses your ability to: SLO 2: identify specific con

Purpose
This assignment assesses your ability to:
SLO 2: identify specific conventions, audiences, and purposes relevant to one’s particular discipline;
MLO 3: identify the rhetorical elements of a genre (analysis); and
MLO 4: analyze a discipline-specific genre for its genre conventions (analysis).
Although writing occurs in every discipline, what this writing looks like will vary across disciplines. For example, writing a lab report in a Biology class is different from writing a literature review in an Economics class or an expert witness testimony in a Courts and Forensics course. Put another way, writing is discipline-specific, which means every discipline has specific genres that are commonly used within that discipline. The purpose of this assignment is to help you become more familiar with what effective writing and communication looks like in your discipline so that you can continue to build your professional ethos.
Instructions
In this assignment, you will analyze a discipline-specific genre provided by your instructor using the chart below.
Step 1: Review the below Genre Analysis Chart. When you are ready to begin the assignment, download the Word doc. version of the Genre Analysis Chart.