Genre Classes List into FGC
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Recreation
These texts are primarily aimed at leisure-time reading
Fiction
- Children's literature
- Comic
- Drama / Play
- Joke - story intended to be funny (Rosso)
- Poem, Poetry, Lyrics
- Prose, Prose Fiction : novel, fairy tale, narration
Nonfiction
- Horoscope
- Game, Quiz, Puzzle (Rubleske)
Instruction
These texts are written with the aim of teaching how to do something or explaining a topic. Normally written by specialists for non-specialists.
- Exercises, Problems - Problems assigned for a course (CW), includes homework, exam questions and Exercise Solutions
- FAQ / Help
- How-to
- Manual
- Tutorial - Text explaining something, like school books (formerly known as "Explanation")
- Review - Review of a book, movie, product, person. Description and evaluation. May include CW's Ratings: Numeric evaluations of products or services; includes Rosso's "Blurb": description page for a place or program (used to find out if you want to go there)
Propaganda
Such texts try to convince the reader to buy a product or act in a certain way.
- Pamphlet - A small treatise [...] on some subject or question of current or temporary interest, personal, social, political, ecclesiastical, or controversial, on which the writer desires to appeal to the public (OED)
- Petition - A petition is a request to an authority, most commonly a government official or public entity.
- Promotional / Advertisement - includes "Classified Ad"
- Shop, Shopping - Vedrana: Web pages created with intention to sell including online stores
Regulations
- Contracts / Disclaimer / Terms and Conditons - legally binding exchange of promises or agreement between parties that the law will enforce (Wikipedia)
- Law, Regulation, Rule, Proclamation (adminstrative and regulatory texts)
- Small print
Information
Lists of various sorts, mostly incomplete sentences.
- Agenda, Schedule, Calendar - List of upcoming or regular events, often sorted by date and time. Includes Georg's "Examination dates", includes CW's University course listing: A list of numbers, titles and description of course offered in some department or departments, possibly including information such as prerequisites, instructor, meeting time and place; includes Georg's "Organisational data (course)", includes Georg's "Cinema programme"
- Bibliography
- Data, Statistics, Data Sheet
- Dictionary
- Directory of Persons and Organisations - Phonebooks, list of participants or sponsors, includes CW's Genealogy a pedigree (OED), includes Rubleske's "Staff Directory"
- Download - Links to non-HTML files (applications etc.), includes CW's File directory listing: A list of files in a computer directory
- Errata
- Forecast - Provide Information about the future, often quite short and using numbers. Including Weather Report, Election Forecast etc.
- Index, Sitemap - Web page with lots of links to the same website.
- Linkfarm - generated to attract mostly automatic traffic from web crawlers to a certain set of websites in order to optimise the ranking of these websites in search engines.
- Link Collection - List of links to other web pages. Includes CW's Hot list: A list of Web sites not controlled by the list’s author, often organized by topic. Includes Rubleske's "Directory of Online Stores" and "Search Results"; Linkfarms - they are bad and useless, but however do list links to other websites.
- List of Products (Rubleske)
- List of Projects - includes CW's "List of research projects": A list of research projects underway in some group
- News Collection (Rubleske) - Directory of links
- Price lists, price comparators
- Table of contents, Navigation - Includes Georg's "Episode list (tv show)"
Reporting
These texts are aimed at more or less impartial presentation of the state of affairs.
Events
This label is for reporting events happened in the past
- Chronicle - A detailed and continuous register of events in order of time; a historical record, esp. one in which the facts are narrated without philosophic treatment, or any attempt at literary style (OED) - CW, includes Rubleske's "Biographical Timeline"
- Meeting minutes
- Newswires
- Police reports, military reports,
Presentation
This label is for presenting information about an entity.
- About Page - A web page presenting personal or organizational information, it includes Rosso's and Rubleskes "Course Description" - what's covered in a course; syllabus (Rosso); includes Georg's "Description of a work group".
- Announcement - Announcing one single event (for example, the launch of a product; a birthday party) in the future. Often combined with an invitation.
- Biography (Portrayal)
- CV/Resume
- Encyclopedia - a comprehensive written compendium or an article therein (on one single topic), includes Rubleske's "Definition/Description" and "Facts-and-Figures Page"; includes Georg's "Glossary Entry" (as a very short Encyclopedian Article)
- Job advert
- Homepage
- Obituary
- Official Report - Includes annual reports and Executive Summaries (Rubleske) from companies, inspection reports etc. More than just the data/statistics.
- Specification - describes some product or service in detail. Includes Product Specification
- Strategic Plans - actions to take in the future. Includes CW's "Party Platform": A public declaration of the principles and policy on which a political party proposes to stand (OED); includes CW's "Government program description": A description of the features of government program, written by agency for potential beneficiaries; includes Georg's "Committee proposal"
- Survey (Rosso, Rubleske) - investigation
- Travel Guide (Rublekse)
Discussion
This is a very diverse set of texts aimed at discussing the state of affairs.
Journalism and public debates
- Column, Editorial, Opinion
- Feature Story, News Reportage
- Front Page - the first page of a newspaper. On the web, a Front Page has a more autonomous status than in the paper world.
- Interview
- Letters to the Editor (DLee)
- Newspaper - Collection of several journalistic texts (news, interviews, ...) on one page, maybe only summaries and links
- Reportage - Longer story about travels, persons, events. The most literature-like journalistic genre.
- Public Debate - Includes DLee's S_parliament (public debates in parliaments etc.)
- Speech, Public Speaking - (Rosso) speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain the listeners (Wikipedia)
Communication
Mostly online communication venues
- Conversation Forum / Guestbook: Includes Forums where people talk about random things (Derived from Mirko's Comment on Forum,Chat)
- Community – portals with user-generated content, something like "myspace"
- Corporate Blog /Clog - Blog run by a company or members of a company. Often on a specific topic, containig almost no personal stories
- Diaries, Personal Blogs
- Letter / E-mail
- Discussion forum / Newsgroup - Interactive discussion on some specific topic. Includes Mirko's "Thematic forums" and "Professional forums"
- Threads in discussion forums
Academic
- Abstract (Rosso, Rubleske) / Expose (Georg) - title and brief description and reference (Rosso)
- Essay - A composition of moderate length on any particular subject
- Research Report / Scientific Report / Academic - Text representing the outcomes of scientific research
- Survey - review of literature
- Thesis
Unclassified (yet)
Online interfaces
- Application - Web applications like gmail, googledocs or content management applications go in here. Includes Rubleske's "Calculator"
- Contact Form / Contact - (Rosso) for asking questions, sending comments etc., also includes pages showing contact information without forms. Includes Georg's "Consent form"
- Gateway / Welcome Page (Rosso) / Splash Page - Includes introductory and (non automatic) redirection pages having the purpose to take the visitor someplace else (e.g. a web page where you choose your language before proceeding).
- Login Page (Rubleske)
- Ordering Form / Booking Form - Form for booking or ordering some stuff. Includes Rosso's "Registration Form"
- Search Form - Includes access to a databse (Rosso)
Religion
- Prayer - to a deity
- Sermon - a text that address a Biblical, theological, or religious topic (Wikipedia)
Non-texts
- Error Message / Empty Page / Under Construction Page
- Code Listings /same as CW's Source code: A computer program /
- Media - Images, Videos, Music and alike.
Miscellaneous
In my view they are either not genres or too heterogeneous to be in a single macrogenre
- Pornographic
- Quotation/s
- Script, Manuscript - The typescript of a cinema or television film; the text of a broadcast announcement, talk, play, or other material (OED) - CW, including DLee's S_sportslive: "live" sports commentaries and discussions; includes Goerg's "Presentation manuscript"
