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The research paper generator has many conventions of what normally can be found in any more specific type of research paper. This generator seemed to be more generic and did not hone in on anything unique to a specific type of research paper. The structure of the paper is the same as many research papers in that it includes an abstract, introduction, related works, citations, multiple paragraphs per section, thoughts behind the research, labeled sections, diagrams that contain explanations, the way the idea was researched, the discussion of the results found within all of the different experiments discussed, and a conclusion to further summarize the findings of the research paper. All of the conventions within this genre are mean to convey all of the pieces of the research paper to a reader in such a way that they could recreate the experiment or experiments and have a full understanding of what was observed by the authors of the paper.   

The comic strip generator has dialogue boxes, characters, facial expressions of varying emotions such: as happiness, surprise,  anger, and awkwardness, conversation between characters, interactions between characters, tell a story, are intended to be humorous regardless of the execution of the joke, have an intended audience of the type of humor portrayed, have cartoon drawings, and varying colors that do not seem to have much importance to the comic as a whole.  All of these pieces are meant to entertain the audience and make the comic more visually appealing towards those who can encounter it.  

In the random meme generator the creators of these are drawing on the audiences familiarity of the image they have chosen as many people have already encountered them before. they also use creative word play to make a reference to something well known to an audience, use puns, attempt to be humorous or please the audience, relate to an interest of the mass majority of people, and draw on emotions such as irritation and annoyance. Memes also have bold fonts to draw the attention of the viewer and brief statements as to make the image more quickly read. The purpose of these conventions is to entertain the viewer with all combination of the image and a brief statement.  

The random generator i choose was a horror story generator. This genre had characters, adjectives that were meant to describe something frightening such as the word zombified, random details to create the story such as a setting, included an accident, body parts, deadly weapon such as a gun or knife, and had background stories that gave the characters more meaning and depth than just random strangers. The horror story also included a plot, the feeling of danger, a curse, and the ability for a solution to the problems to be solved by the characters. All of these pieces were key to creating a story that was meant to be scary by the use of common ideas of what can scare people. These conventions all play a part in entertaining the reader as well as keeping their attention.  

These websites set out a familiar framework of each type of genre, which allows of the person viewing each of these to being to see the conventions within them. By making a template that people can put random words or phrases into, these websites are giving the viewer a basic understanding as to what each type of genre requires for it to be categorized as that genre. When one considers what they are writing in the blanks as well as the way the words chosen are used in the generator a deeper understanding of what is required to make the genre is gained. The viewer also gains insight as to the purpose of each type of genre as they play with the random generators.