Dean Genre
- Characteristics not forms
- Social – interacts with people
- Rhetorical – the purpose is clear and understandable
- Dynamic – changing
- Historical – the genre itself has a history, the genre evolved from something else
- Cultural
- Situated – It has become the norm. The genre fits the situation (Tickets from a movie theater)
- Ideological – Expectations
- We see similarities so we use common genres for common situations
- All genres are both stable and fluid
- Not just literary texts
- Genre Chains – genres that lead to one another (prompt for an essay and the essay itself)
- Antecedent Genres – all genres have a history, a genre that it branched off of
Inquiry the next step
Apply the contribution paper to a different genre or different mode. Like a movie adaptation of a book some things will get cut and some will be added. Must capture the essence of the original contribution.
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