%0 Journal Article %T Understanding the Writing Demands of Crowdfunding Campaigns With the Genre %A Adam R. Pope %J Business and Professional Communication Quarterly %@ 2329-4922 %D 2018 %R 10.1177/2329490618795935 %X This article lays out an approach for introducing students to the writing demands of crowdfunding platforms using a genre-driven research report. Using genre theory and genre ecologies, students leverage primary research to map the genre norms and writing demands within a specific area of a crowdfunding platform, generating a data set to help them either formulate their own campaign or critically engage with the crowdfunding genre %K genre acquisition %K genre %K pedagogy %K crowdfunding %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2329490618795935