GENRE COMPOSITION

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COMPOSER'S STATEMENT

The genre that I was functioning in for this composition was social media and specifically Twitter. I composed a twitter thread breaking down all thirty NBA teams’ rosters and or lineups. I had thirty-two posts; thirty for each team, and then one original post at the beginning of the thread to announce what I was doing. In this header, I utilized one of twitters functions that separates it from a blog for example. I inserted two basketball emojis at the beginning and end of the first post. And after I had broken down each team’s lineups, I included the thirty-second and final reply, stating that I did not take into consideration if a player was injured. I also included the fact that these lineups are not perfect and do not include the players that were signed to the teams after I posted the tweet. I included the last bit of information to clarify that I was unable to go back and edit any of the tweets to add new players. Due to the informal nature of my genre; social media, I was able to address the audience of this tweet in first person because that is how social media is. Users are talking mostly to their peers, not a formal or professional audience. I aimed to have my tweets read by the average basketball fan, such as myself. I envisioned the audience feeling excitement from my tweets to get ready for the upcoming season. It turns out that my vision came to fruition as I received multiple replies, likes, and re-tweets. My efforts to appeal to a certain audience worked and I can see myself doing this same type of thing again next year just for the fun of it!

MLA Citation

Roa, Alberto de. “NBA Depth Charts.” HoopsHype, 10 July 2019, hoopshype.com/2019/07/10/nba-depth-charts/.

“Ratings Database Updates.” NBA 2K20 Ratings, www.2kratings.com/.