PB1B: Inspecting Genre Generators

The conventions to a genre are the components of the genre, the language, the glue of the writing piece. You need to have these conventions in order to define a genre and make the genre what it really is. For example we did the horror movie in class, and defined the conventions in great detail i.e the audience screams, the music and so on and so forth. All of these “plug and chug” genres all have conventions to them as well.

The SCIgen is a computer program that generates computer science research papers for the students. The audience of this genre is the researchers who are trying to create a eloquent piece of literature. The purpose of this website is for researcher’s to plug information into this generator and it gives you back a grammar free paper. There are multiple colors so that you are able to follow along and the bold word means that those words are important and to follow along. The tone of this genre is formal, it is explaining to you what you are going to be receiving back when you use it to write a paper for you. There are titles for every section it is discussing. The first person is used at the end discussing who the authors of this program are. The authors of this genre give their names.

The comic strips is a random comic generator that you can click on a link and it will set you up to make your own. The conventions of this genre are that it has examples of what your comic strip could be on the home page. Also the tone is very mellow trying to be funny, the word “fun” is used implying that if you click the link you will have fun. It tells you how many different combinations there are out there that you could pick from. It also wants to know if you would donate any tips to the creator of the website, he would like feedback from the people that are using his website.

The meme generator on my computer would not open because there was a problem with the url or something along those lines. My guess to what the conventions are that were on the website are you could upload pictures and it would spit back at you a funny meme that funny and you could get a kick out of. 

I did my own genre, it is the bibliography page. You plug in all the essentials you need in order to make a bibliography into this websites and it shoots back the correct bibliography. This website just explains to you what to put in and then you put it in, and it just shoots you out a bib. Another convention to this website is that it gives you educational resources that can help you out. You can even sign up directly on the website, all you have to do is click the link. It lists the partners that esybib is working with, and you can also sign up for an easybib account on the website.

If you think about what is in these websites you are thinking more in depth on what exactly is in a genre. In these websites they all have one thing in common is that they are explaining what you are going to get if you are on this website. That is a major convention of all these genres. Looking at all these genres helps you understand genre better because you are going into depth in the conventions, and looking at what each genre has, what is similar and what is different between all of them.