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16. Writing is Made of Genres, and Genres are Made of ROCSS (Part II)

16. Writing is Made of Genres, and Genres are Made of ROCSS (Part II)

Released Tuesday, 28th November 2023
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16. Writing is Made of Genres, and Genres are Made of ROCSS (Part II)

16. Writing is Made of Genres, and Genres are Made of ROCSS (Part II)

16. Writing is Made of Genres, and Genres are Made of ROCSS (Part II)

16. Writing is Made of Genres, and Genres are Made of ROCSS (Part II)

Tuesday, 28th November 2023
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In this second episode on a series about ROCSS, I use a page from the Merriam-Webster Children's Dictionary on my son's bookshelf to talk through the components of the acronym: Recurring Occasion, Content, Structure, and Style. ROCSS offers a powerful and memorable way to describe genres in the classroom, and varied practice with what I call a "ROCSS Analysis"--a brief genre analysis--can help learners understand writing in terms of genre. This episode uses the dictionary entry to describe how ROCSS works, and future episodes will provide further examples of how I use it with my students, how I came up with ROCSS in the first place, and the theories of genre that inform my use of ROCSS.

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