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A Context and Genre Analysis for <Name of Context>:
Documenting and Analyzing Document Use in Context

Your Name

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Data: Description of Context's Use of Documents
• Results: Analysis of Features, Influences of Use
• Data: Description of 1 Genre from this Context & its Use
• Results: Analysis of Features, Functions
• Summary
  

Abstract: A Study of Document Use in a Particular Place [return to top]
Abstracts typically lay out "what happened" in a study, what was looked at, what analysis was performed. So you will need to say what kind of context was "observed" and explain what the analysis is trying to do - so restating the assignment with reference to your particular context.

Subhead: Using the blockquote tag to indent, and "bodyhead2" for italic subheading
In this section you will have information explaining/expanding/developing the utility of the knowledge you are presenting, contextualized to your fellow students in as many effective ways as possible. You may want to use sub-headings to break the information in this section up and show different possibilities.

Introduction: What is this study? [return to top]
The Introduction section is where you explain what this study is, what you're looking at, who you are. Here you begin by saying what this study is, then telling what, where, when and who this context is/was. Next what is/are the goals and activities of the context, how large it was, how many people, of what jobs, of the individuals in the context, what is the culture of the context, in brief, because the next section lays this out a bit more.

Background: Understanding the Culture and Document Use of "your context" [return to top]
Here you will explain in a bit more detail what your context is, what it does, and since these will be fairly complex, you will explain how you decided what to limit your analysis to.

Data: Context - An Explanation of Systemic Doc Use - A Process for Purpose [return to top]
The Context Data section needs to lay out what the process is, what it does, and what documents are used and what they do in the process.

Using Anchors to create Internal Links
The other things going on in this template include links that function inside a single webpage - these are called anchors, and let you move forward and back in a longer document very quickly. The "return to top" links after each section are such links, as are the three links at the top of the page. In the code you will see a tag for a "name" at each section of the file.

Once these places in the web page are so marked, you can link to them just like you could to another web page. The code for a "name" or "anchor" looks like: <a name="steps"> </a> - that marks a spot. The code to link to that spot is just like a web link, but it adds a pound sign to say "inside this page" and the name of the anchor, so: <a href="#top">return to top</a> - creates the link that the user clicks on to go back to the top of this page.

Results-Context: How Situation/Docs Effect Function [return to top]
This section will have sub-heads for each claim you want to make about how the context functions situationally - how the situation effects use, and how the structure or technology of documents control/effect use.

Data-Genre: Definining your Genre and it's Situational Use [return to top]
Here you need to explain what the genre is/does - your explanation above should help - but here you explain in more detail what its situation is and what the "features" of the "document" are (as we've discussed in class, both physical, internal, cycle of use, etc.), and be sure to cover both the "ideal" or "how it's supposed to happen" and how it really does.

Results-Genre: How Situation Effects Genre "Use", How Genre Defines Situation [return to top]
Here as above you should have a number of paragraphs/sections with their own sub-heads that make claims about how the genre functions in the context is situational/rhetorical.

Conclusions/Summary: Writing as Rhetorical/Situation Practice [return to top]
Here you can wrap the whole thing up, restating your context claims and genre claims and talking about how you see the writing practices as a rhetorical/situational system now.