Writing Genres Format: Paperback

Amy J. Devitt

ISBN 10: 0809328690 / ISBN 13: 9780809328697

Published by University of Chicago press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing Genres Format: Paperback
• Publisher: University of Chicago press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809328690
• ISBN 13: 9780809328697
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In Writing Genres, Amy J. Devitt examines genre from rhetorical, social, linguistic, professional, and historical perspectives and explores genre's educational uses, making this volume the most comprehensive view of genre theory today.

Writing Genres does not limit itself to literary genres or to ideas of genres as formal conventions but additionally provides a theoretical definition of genre as rhetorical, dynamic, and flexible, which allows scholars to examine the role of genres in academic, professional, and social communities.

Writing Genres demonstrates how genres function within their communities rhetorically and socially, how they develop out of their contexts historically, how genres relate to other types of norms and standards in language, and how genres nonetheless enable creativity. Devitt also advocates a critical genre pedagogy based on these ideas and provides a rationale for first-year writing classes grounded in teaching antecedent genres.

 

About the Author

Amy J. Devitt is Chancellors Club Teaching Professor in the Department of English at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Standardizing Written English: Diffusion in the Case of Scotland, 1520-1659 and a coauthor of Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres.