The writing genre for this chapter incorporates a variety of modalities. A genre is a type of composition that encompasses defined features, follows a style or format, and reflects your purpose as a writer.

When considering the multimodal genres, you will discover that genres create conventions (standard ways of doing things) for categorizing media according to the expectations of the audience and the way the media will… Consider film media, for example; it encompasses genres including drama, documentaries, and animated shorts, to name a few.

genre — a type of composition that encompasses defined features, follows a style or format, and reflects your purpose as a writer.

Be able to identify various rhetorical and culture contexts while reading for inquiry, learning, critical thinking, and communication; identify key genre conventions, including structure, tone, and mechanics.