When we began three weeks ago, I thought I knew what genre was. I thought a genre was as vague as music, sports, comedy, science fiction, horror, etc. But Zach (as he likes to be called) showed me and the whole class is much more specific. Instead of just music, the genre could be album reviews. Or instead of sports, the genre would be Eagles v Redskins game analysis.
In class, Zach taught us how to get from point A to B in looking for a written genre by using the nesting dolls technique. This technique allows you to take a broad and vague topic like music, and boil it down to a specific writing genre. You start at music, and then you look for types of music, so you go to Hip Hop. Then you even get more specific and use Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly album. You’re close, but that’s still a little too broad so you boil it all the way down to To Pimp a Butterfly Reviews, and there’s your genre. Without the nesting dolls technique, I wouldn’t have been able to find a specific written genre, and all of my genre would’ve been too vague, and all of my future papers would be incorrect.
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