Sunday, March 6, 2016

Academic Discourse and Genre

In this post, I will be analyzing the genres used in The Handbook of NASDAQ Stocks.

As far as I can tell from reading the journal, only two different genres are used in the journal. The journal moves between paragraphs of analysis into pictures of stock graphs. The Paragraphs are written with a formal tone, and are referring to the stock graphs. The stock graphs have captions to better the readers understanding of the context of the graph.

The first genre is just paragraphs of analysis like you would find in a standard essay. The second genre is the stock graphs, which give a visual representation of the stocks performance, and is accompanied by a caption to explain the context of the stock.

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