Blog post #9
Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006)
Genre is the aspect of writing that defines what content is appropriate for what you’re trying to accomplish. Genre is nothing more than the boundary around writing. Discourse communities use genre to focus their effort onto what they’re trying to accomplish.
The two genres I plan to use for my info graphic project is alternative history, and comedy. The reason for this is to demonstrate the comedic extremes of how bad things could be if subliminal messaging was more effective and was not limited by governments. The 1988 film “They Live” is a prime example of how this could be done.