When I first plugged in the names Shirly Ribak, Shiri Arnon (my roommate), and Leigh Rybak (my cousin) into the first of three different genre generator websites the result was interesting. I ended up with a piece of writing that I would assume to be a research paper. I would assume that the paper generated by the SCIgen is a research paper due to its rhetorical features and its conventions. First, the audience of this paper is clearly someone who is interested in the science of the Web and the way in which algorithms are used to develop various aspects of the Internet. I am able to infer that this is the probable audience of this piece of writing because while reading the paper I noticed that the reader is asked to “suppose,” “consider,” and “see” various things depicted by the studies that are being discussed. Second, the style and tone of this writing is very formal, clear, concise, and educational. The word choice is scientific, ranging from scientific nouns to titles and names of scientific articles, authors, and discoveries. Next, the purpose of this piece of writing is demonstrated by its abstract, which works to give a heads up to the reader of what he/ she will be reading about before he/ she begins to read. Finally, this piece of writing obtains many conventions that are common to research papers. These conventions include an informative title, graphs, organizers, diagrams, an abstract, a conclusion, references, and examples.

            Next, I believe to have generated a comic strip from pandyland.net. Again, I am convinced that I have generated a comic strip due to the specific conventions that are apparent in the images that were generated. Some of the conventions that convinced me that the genre generated from this website is a comic include the specific font used, speech bubbles, illustrations, color, humor, curse words, the use of blocks to separate the various images, and the way in which the images are placed in a sort of chronological order from left to right in order to depict the order in which the dialogue of the cartoon characters is supposed to be read. Also, the audience of the comics generated by this website is probably composed of surfers of the web looking for entertainment while the purpose of the comics generated by this website is to entertain the very Internet surfers who are looking to be entertained. Thus, I am convinced that the genre generated by pandyland.net is a comic strip.

            Lastly, I surfed memegenerator.net and unsurprisingly the genre that was generated on this website was a meme. One of my favorite memes on this website has coined the title, “Bad Luck Brian” Meme.  This meme is especially humorous due to its rhetorical features. The audience of the Bad Luck Brian” memes tends to be composed of surfers of the web who are looking to be entertained. Likewise, the purpose of the “Bad Luck Brian” memes is to make surfers of the web laugh either in their head or out loud. A “Bad Luck Brian” meme has certain conventions that separate it from other pieces of writing and essentially, other memes as well. The conventions of the Bad Luck Brian include, of course, Bad Luck Brian, who is a white adolescent male with red hair and braces wearing a plaid red sweater vest on top of a light blue collared shirt. Besides Bad Luck Brian himself, the conventions of the “Bad Luck Brian” memes include a specific font of white block letters that usually spell out funny situations. For example, one of the “Bad Luck Brian” memes had “Checks under bed for monster, find one” written on it and another had “wins golden ticket to Wonka’s chocolate factory, gets diabetes” written on it. Thus, through what is written in the white block letters and the fact that they are written on top of a picture of “Bad Luck Brian” allow the reader to infer the genre of the image as a meme.