Genre is a major driving point in our papers, as well as the other elements. The genre we use is based on our assignments. For the Multimodal assignment, its genre was an argumentative essay. For the blended essay, it was two genres: argumentative essay, and expository essay. Lastly, for the narrative essay, it was, of course, literacy narrative. Genre can’t be seen as just fiction or non-fiction, and I learned quickly that it goes deeper than that. It is the style that you write in, it is the way we express our ideas. As demonstrated with the blended essay piece, we can combine two genres of essays to form one uniform piece.

“I confronted the bullies and demanded to know what was going on. Just like that, it was like I was watching a performance fall apart right before my eyes.”
“A survey was conducted on 1221 parents all stating the after-effects of bullying “including their child’s psychological well-being” (Zablotsky, Bradshaw, Anderson, Law 1).”

The first quote I cited from my blended assignment, was part of a narrative. I used literary techniques such as imagery and metaphors to try to tell an engaging story. From there, I tried to shift to something more expository. I shifted to a neutral standpoint where I talked about an issue while not using any language that would suggest that I took an explicitly stated stance on the matter. It was a challenge having to do this since I constantly felt as though I’d end up doing exactly that anyway. It’d constantly lead to me overthinking about the word choices I was using and the overall tone of the essay. Staying neutral on a topic was not something I was used to doing at all, all because of the countless argumentative essays I was subjected to. Despite all of this, I managed to adjust accordingly.