Devitt writes that "the reintegration of product and process that this new genre theory enables . . . can contribute to our understanding of process and text-making." Has it contributed to anyone's understanding of these things? If so, how so?
Of the Onion headlines, Dirk writes that "they are a rhetorical action meant to bring about a specific response,
which is why I see them as being their own genre." Do you think that meeting this single criterion--i.e. being a rhetorical action meant to bring about a specific response--is enough for these headlines to qualify as their own genre? Why or why not?
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Yon's questions for July26
Q 1. According to Reiff, the genre can be interpreted in the context of a power dynamic. Used to a genre convention, however, readers often...
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1. After reading Arola’s article and taking into consideration the eight-year time lapse, would you agree or disagree that ...
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1. Reiff stresses an importance for instructors to move beyond simply teaching genre as form. For one, if we teach genre as simply a templat...
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