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Writing Genres - Couverture souple

Southern Illinois University Press

 
9780809328697: Writing Genres
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0809328690 ISBN 13 : 9780809328697
Editeur : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Southern Illinois University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0809328690
ISBN 13 
9780809328697
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
268
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Personne responsable
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