Introduction to Genre, Form, and Audience

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为年轻读者而写作：打开宝箱

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Commonwealth Education Trust

为年轻读者而写作：打开宝箱

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This course is for curious students and aspiring authors with a passion for writing for young readers. Participate in a dynamic online community of writers as you experiment with your own writing and develop your voice. This course will guide you with a combination of video lectures, online readings, peer reviews, and guest appearances from world-renowned children’s authors. As you work through the writing exercises, you will give and receive feedback from your peers and gain tools and techniques for improving your writing. During this course you will identify stories that matter to you, explore cultural significance and boundaries, and shape your identity as a writer; become familiar with standard elements of narrative (character, setting, plot, theme, language, dialogue, point of view); reflect on your own work and practice essential self-editing skills; see the different ways in which words and art interact, and the possibilities of longer narrative forms; come away with practical insights into publishing options; and create a plan for pursuing your enthusiasm for writing. By the end of the course, you will have ten to twelve extracts of writing that you can develop into a portfolio. Join a dynamic community of many voices from around the world. Find inspiration in your own voice, heart, and place so that you can tell the stories for young readers you’ve always wanted to tell.

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Genre, Form, and Audience

In this module we will give you an overview of genres and forms that are popular for young readers. We will then move on to a discussion of audience – who your readers are and how you can make your work appealing to your chosen audience. By the end of the module you will have a good sense of the wide range of genres and forms available to you and some techniques that you can use to make the most of the genre or form you are working in.

Introduction to Genre, Form, and Audience3:25

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David Hill
Author
Maria Gill
Author
Alex Alexandrou
Dr

A hundred years ago, World War 1 was being fought.

Now there are thousands of books being published about that war.

These come in the form of picture books, chapter books,

non-fiction books, short stories, poems, plays.

Some are on the history of the war, some are realistic stories,

some are fantasy stories.

Some are relationship stories about friendships among the soldiers or

between soldiers and their families back home.

It can be hard deciding what sort of story or poem or book you want to write.

But don't worry that there are so many types of writing and

don't worry that writing for young readers means that you may have to choose whether

you're writing for a four year old or a 16-year-old or some age in between.

Go for whatever you like writing.

In this module we're going to use three key words, genre, form, and audience.

There'll be a video about each one so

you'll have plenty of time to get to know them.

In this video I'll just introduce you to all those three words.

Genre is a word that describes the topic of your writing or

what you are writing about.

So there's a fantasy genre with magical people, animals, and events.

There's a realistic genre, where the story or

poem usually deals with real life things that happens to real life people.

There's a historical genre, where your book, play or article is set in the past.

Is the romance genre, love stories and such.

There's an adventure genre, where exciting things happen to the characters.

And there are more genres which we'll talk about in the next video on genre types.

Form refers to the sort of writing you hope to produce.

A poem, a play, a chapter book, a story, a magazine article,

a picture book and so on.

And audience refers to the age group you are writing for.

And sometimes, their interests.

Your audience could be very little children or 10 year olds or teenagers.

So you might write a poem, that's the form, about a fantasy animal,

that's the genre, which is meant for seven to eight year olds.

That's the audience.

Or you might write a story, the form, set in historical times,

the genre, aimed at older teenagers, the audience.

As we see it, don't worry that there are so many types of genre form and audience.

Feel pleased that there are such a lot they give you more ways to write.

As you start to write, you will find the ones you enjoy most.

The books and stories you like reading may also have given you an idea

of which genres, forms, and audiences appeal to you.

And remember that you can always use the same idea for a poem and a story or

a picture book and some non fiction.

There's a wide, wonderful world of writing ahead of you.

What if you're stuck and can't decide on your genre or form or audience?

And every writer gets stuck sometimes.

I do, about three times every day.

Then you read.

Take a book or a story you like.

Read it slowly.

What's it about?

What's it's genre?

What form is it?

Is it a picture book, a poem or a story?

What age group or audience does it seem to be aimed at?

As we've said, reading is always a great help to writers.

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