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    When dissecting research papers for their conventions using the SCI generator, I came to the conclusion that either research papers can only be about Decoupling Sensor Networks from Rasterization in Congestion Control, or that the SCI generator was not working properly.  Since I am a person with some level of coherence, I determined the reality to be the latter of the two options and decided to search different types of research papers and think back to the papers that I have read or written during my academic career.  While conducting my own research on research, I found that research papers have a specific set of conventions, but also that different types of research papers have their very own conventions that set them apart from the rest as specificity increases, much like the nesting dolls where the smaller dolls of their own traits build to make the final, large, all encompassing doll.  The conventions that make a research paper a research paper generally have to do with gathering data or facts, analyzing them, and then answering a question, proving a point, or confirming/rejecting a hypothesis.  Research papers have titles that relate to the topic at hand, a brief introduction so the reader knows what the paper is about, quantitative data, graphs, tables, analysis, a conclusion, and finally a list of references if it is not experimental research done by the author him/herself.  Research papers are dry.  They contain no interesting diction or syntax, lack style, and are straightforward and to the point.  They are soulless. When one reads a research paper, the individual is doing so to learn about something that someone else has figured out and decided to make public or gain insight.  To classify research papers into separate sub genres, variables like subject, topic, and purpose come into play that can distinguish an experimental research paper on chemical bonding from the mating patterns of male pufferfish off the coast of Japan. .

    Comic strips are easy to spot.  Immediately when looking at a comic strip the viewer can identify it, but what makes it easily identifiable is its set conventions.  Comic strips are short animations with a small number of characters and tend to have simple detailing.  They have little writing on the strip and what is there generally takes the form of dialogue either from character to character or character to self.  They also contain onomatopoeias to give the comic an auditory angle even though no sound is actually being produced and somewhat take the form of a short still frame movie, with each animation being progressive building off the previous scene.  Comic strips serve a purpose that is to evoke emotion, provide entertainment, or prove a point.  The most prevalent type of comic that one might see today or have seen in the past are political comics.  The authors of these comics try to sway your opinion or point out flaws in their less favored candidate using wit and humor while being brief.  Comics can be an effective platform to persuade and to evoke emotion because they are visually appealing, entertaining, and take only a moment for the viewer to comprehend the purpose of the comic if it has one besides that of pure entertainment.  

    The basic conventions of memes are much like those of comic strips.  They are visuals, being either an animation or a picture with writing on the top and bottom of the picture.  Memes spread ideas, provide advice, are a source of humor throughout the internet primarily on social media, and are used for a person to express themselves.  What a person wants to express determines the picture for the meme they will create and in this sense, each meme is its own genre as each picture has a form and a function that the creator must follow unless they want the collective weight of the social media users of the internet to bear down on them.  For example, the meme with Gene Walder from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1971) is used to display sarcasm and therefore be humorous.  On the other hand, the meme of the duck on a pond, commonly referred to as actual advice mallard, is used for users of the internet to provide advice that is not commonly recognized among the audience viewing the meme.  Each meme has a genre and therefore a text subject that corresponds to the accepted form of the particular meme.

    A generator I found for an interesting genre was a joke generator.  As everyone knows, jokes are intended to make people laugh.  They contain a setup that can vary from only a sentence or two, to an entire story.  They also contain a punchline which tends to be brief which is that part that sets the joke into motion and evokes the response, like pulling that last risky block on a shaky jenga tower that sends it all tumbling to the ground.  Jokes have their own set of genres, such as animal jokes, dirty jokes, racist jokes (unfortunately), blonde jokes (fortunately), walks into a bar jokes, etc. that they can be classified into based on their conventions.  Jokes are easy to filter into genres because they usually only depend on the subject of the joke, whether it's animals, blondes, or jokes about teachers.