answered: For the narrative: Think about the genres you’ve written and

  

For the narrative: Think about the genres you’ve written and think about the variety of forms and content. Did you do much reading and writing in school or outside of school? Maybe compare those settings and the literacy practices in your life. If you did a lot of writing in school, what did you do? Was there variety? What were the purposes of the forms and the purposes of having you do these things as part of your writing development?
Beyond the narrative: You’ll be doing probably more reading and writing here than you’ve previously done in school. Reading and writing are forms of learning that underpin all disciplines, so that’s one reason it’s good to think more about genre and to figure out what the purposes of different genres of writing are about—whether in the disciplines, in the professions, or in your personal life.
Genre knowledge also helps you to remember that when you’re in unfamiliar writing situations, there are productive questions writers ask: What is this thing I’m writing? What does it do in the world? Who is it for? And what are the expectations readers have for it?