ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors experiment with genre through fundamental prose and poetry techniques. Genre is the French term for a type, species or class of composition. The term genre is used to distinguish a broad range of different kinds of writing from the non-literary to the literary. They convert a single sentence into a poem, and look at the many different ways in which that sentence can be rearranged and transformed to emphasise its poetic qualities. Realism can be powerfully used in writing to convey psychological and social realities, and it is the mode with which the reader is likely to be most familiar. Some of the techniques for writing realist prose we will explore will probably be ones the reader already adopt in student’s writing automatically. These words serve as a prompt which sets mind in motion. Even if you do not approach the exercise consciously in this way, you will probably be making such creative moves semiconsciously.
