Academic Writing 

For the past two weeks you have explored and analyzed various genres and platforms. In your last blog post you were asked to analyze one blog. However, for this blog post you will use the main ideas from the article Navigating Genres by Kerry Dirk to help you focus on exploring one specific topic across multiple genres. Write a brief analysis which compares the purpose, intended audience, and the affordances and constraints, of a few different platforms or genres of your choice while researching a specific area of inquiry.