Learning genre differences




While learning about genres and media types, we learned that each genre has different conventions and styles. For example, an online news article will look very different and discuss different topics from say, a full-length novel. We were then asked to write a fake news story, imitating the style of an online news page, down to the details of the footers and font.

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