Genres

Describes what a record is by type/category; "[genre] takes [action]"

Records are classified into genres based on presence of certain features

  • Assessments [action: evaluates] - Materials used for evaluating students based on a set of criteria, including placement tests.
  • Assignments [action: explains] - Instructions for completing writing-based or composition-oriented tasks.
  • Blank Forms [action: collects] - Documents that hold space for entry of information.
  • Checklists [action: provides] -  Lists or to-do items formatted as action-oriented tasks to complete.
  • Committee Descriptions [action: describes]  - Summaries or overviews of what a position/role/group of positions or roles will entail. 
  • Concept Maps [action: illustrates/contains thoughts in form] - Visual representations of content used to enhance or demonstrate information in an alternative form to text. 
  • Correspondence [action: expresses/responds/requests]  
  • Course Descriptions [action: describes] - Summaries or overviews of what a course entails/will entail. 
  • Data [action: displays/characterizes] -  Represents information gathered from surveys or forms; often presented visually.
  • Ephemera [action: simply exists]  - Miscellaneous materials not always with a clear origin, purpose, or function. 
  • Figures [action: depicts] - Diagrammatic representations of processes, procedures, or resources; structured visual forms of information.
  • Floorplans [action: depicts] - Visual representations of real or imagined physical locations, e.g., buildings or offices. 
  • Flyers [action: advertises] - Public-facing communication sharing updates, news, and developments happening within the department or on campus; soliciting or advertising for participation and engagement in an event or opportunity. 
  • Guides [action: provides]  - Documents that tell or show how to do or consider something.
  • Handbooks [action: informs] - A collection of procedures or training approaches.
  • Job Descriptions [action: describes] - Documents that advertise for or describe open employment or role opportunities. 
  • Learning Goals [action: articulates] -  Objectives outlined within situational, time-oriented contexts that follows a predetermined schedule, curriculum, or process.
  • Meeting Minutes [action: summarizes/captures] - Notes containing information regarding happenings and topics addressed or explored during a department meeting. 
  • Memos [action: shares/announces/requests] - Document providing information about developments or occasions and often says MEMO in the document. 
  • Outlines [action: organizes] - Structured example of an end-product or goal.
  • Presentations [action: shares] - Information designed for sharing with various audiences using text, graphical elements, and/or images; PowerPoint or similar digital applications are used to display information on topics of interest.
  • Procedures [action: (re)enforces/articulates] - Departmental or campus-wide rules; may be accompanied by expressions of punitive action or reinforcement.
  • Program Evaluations [action: reviews/recommends]  
  • Proposals [action: appeals/generates] - Documents suggesting implementation of a plan or to (re)design a course or procedure; assert an intention to pursue a specific initiative or action/set of actions. 
  • Publications [action: considers/argues/articulates/applies] - Writing artifacts that were published by someone in the department/for departmental use and distribution. 
  • Recommendations [action: offers/suggests]  
  • Reports [action: informs/provides] - Findings communicated with stakeholders within or beyond the department, often following an evaluation; includes accreditation. 
  • Rubrics [action: evaluates] - Documents that include scores or numeric values assigned to certain traits or features of a work; may be tabular.
  • Statements [action: discusses/opines] - Documents oriented toward discussing the impact or significance of a departmental project, roles, or administrative positions; opinionated, in support of taking action towards or augmenting a stance. 
  • Surveys [action: collects] - Documents soliciting or requesting feedback which apply metrics; differentiated from forms which collect only descriptive information. 
  • Syllabi [action: expresses/enacts] - Documents containing some combination of articulated course content and goals, often framed relative to program goals and outcomes within the larger situational context of university objectives or requirements; may contain assignment sheets and rubrics as part of document
  • Templates [action: provides] - Examples of structured content which may be adapted or revised for situated use.
  • Workshops [action: shares/engages] - Materials designed to engage participants in sharing and gaining knowledge in specific topic or content areas.

Subjects and Keywords

as of April 2023

Describes what a record is about; "[genre] shows us something about [subject/keyword]"

  • Course Design
  • Curriculum
  • Enrollment
  • First-Year Writing
  • Graduate Students
  • Grammar
  • Labor
  • Language
  • Learning Environment
  • Measurement
  • Methods
  • Middler-Year Writing
  • Outcomes
  • Pedagogy
  • Peer Review
  • Performance
  • Placement
  • Policy
  • Professional Development
  • Proficiency
  • Program Administration
  • Program Development
  • Program Reform
  • Programming
  • Reflection
  • Research
  • Retention
  • Technology
  • Text Use
  • Writing Classrooms
  • Writing Center
  • Writing in the Disciplines
  • Writing Practice
  • Writing Process
  • Writing Program