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A classification of genre families in university student writing

This paper demonstrates how the author’s research builds on the American tradition of classifying student tasks, and the Australian and British traditions of describing written genres in schools, to produce a new type of classification of university student writing as 13 genre families. Since the first draft was presented in 2008, it has been changing the way academics, writing tutors and textbook writers understand research and teach student writing. This is evidenced by feedback from presentations at international universities, major international conferences and also in research to produce textbooks for Oxford University Press and online materials for the British Council. The understanding of genre locates Design Specification alongside Critique, Literature Review and the other genre families, locating specific models in art and design pedagogy within a generic framework.