Genre Sets and Genre Systems
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Genres
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Typified Response to writing [interactive]
2. Can be social actions; written to achieve social action
- Genre helps complete goals in my life
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All texts have conventions - genre
theory
- Kerry Dirk: “Because genres
usually come with established conventions, it is risky to choose not to follow
such conventions.” (258 – 259)
- Genre Sets and Genre Systems
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Genre Systems – set of genres interacting to achieve an overarching
function within an activity system
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includes genres from multiple genres over time and can involve the interaction
of users with different levels of expertise and authority who may not all have
equal knowledge of or access to all the genres within the system (88)
- Genre
sets – more loosely defined sets of
genre, associated through the activities and functions of a collective but only
defining a limited range of actions
- Collection of genres with more than one genre
operating at a time
- Meeting same purpose or goal for the same audience
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Examples
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Graduate School: Statement of purpose, test scores, letters of recommendation
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Hospital setting – Hospital social worker genre set: Referral forms, initial assessments, patient
documents, ongoing assessments, progress reports and closing reports
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Classroom setting - Teacher genre set: Class
notes, reading notes, essays and emails
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#blacklivesmatter web page: Sense of who
these people are, set of demands, photos, each blog containing a different genre
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When might genre sets be useful? *
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Dividing labor between tasks and functions – need content, cover, etc.
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Distributing meaning across locations – advertising on billboards (not getting
a target audience)
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Credibility – evidence and demonstrating skill
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Letter to the editor – constraints, lots of hyperbole
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Fliers and pamphlets
- Genre Repertoire – genres you know
Examples:
Fiction, Non- Fiction, Descriptive, Narrative
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Context
of Genres – “set of all existing genres in a society or culture” (87) ; also defined
as all genres in a culture
Examples include:
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Facebook
posts
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Letters/email
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Debate/speech
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Text
Messaging
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Paratext
– materials surrounding the main content of a major work which can include
material supplied by the editors, publishers or other people who are not the
author of the work
-Paratext is the threshold
between content and the reader
- Also includes cover and cover
art, title, front matter and back matter and formatting
-Examples:
Amazon reviews, books a million “best books” table
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Moby Dick cover art – Modern vs. 1851 cover, great illustrated classics, 1950
Hungarian version
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