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– In Navigating Genres Kerry Dirk
says that because “genres function as social actions, you can quite accurately
predict how they function rhetorically”, suggesting that your genre choice when
writing is largely determined by the social function of your writing instead of
(or along with) your writing’s content (253). Do you think that social function
and a writing’s content are repeatable? Do you think they impact a text’s genre
equally or is one more important than the other?
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– One of Amy Devitt’s main points in Generalizing
about Genre: New Conceptions of an Old Concept is that we have too long conceived
of genre as forms of writing and that we need to start understanding genre as “a
dynamic response to and construction of recurring situation[s]…that [adapt] and
[grow] as the social context changes” (580). Do you think that it is possible
for a genre to exist outside of social conditions? How would you go about
teaching definitions of genre to your students using Devitt’s concept?
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