Word Synthesis of Assigned Texts

Word Synthesis of Assigned Texts

Word Synthesis of Assigned Texts

Genre used to refer primarilyto form, which meant that writing in a particular genre was seen as merely a matter of filling in the blanks (Dirk, 2010, p. 251)—but treating genre as the form requires dividing form from content, with genre asthe form into which content is put(Devitt, 1993, p.574). As such, a rhetorical sound definition of genre must be centred on the actions it is used to accomplish (Miller,1994, p. 151).In other words, knowing what a genre is used for can help people toachieve goals(Dirk, 2010, p. 253). This is because genres have the power to help or hurt human interaction,to ease communication or to deceive, to enable someone to speak or to discourage someone from saying something different (Devitt, 1993, p.574).

It is possible for two texts that might fit into the same genre to look extremely different (Dirk, 2010, p. 255) because individuals may combine different genres or may “violate” the norms of an existing genre. This thereby confirms that genre’s existence and potentially changing it(Devitt, 1993, p.580). In identifying genres, location is undoubtedly among the situational elements that lead to expectedgenres and adaptations of those genres, in particular, situations(Dirk, 2010, p. 255) because genres changes historically and in different social groups, that adaptsand grows as the social context changes(Devitt, 1993, p.580). Genre fuses semiotically fuses the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic(Miller,1994, p. 162).

Because genres usually come withestablished conventions, it is risky to choose not to follow such conventions. Thesimilarities within genres help us to communicate successfully(Dirk, 2010, p. 259) since in language, “too much variation results eventually in lack ofmeaning: mutual unintelligibility” (Devitt, 1993, p.585). Genres also help us to make more efficientdecisions when writing, as we can see how people have approached similar situations (Dirk, 2010, p. 259). Creating a new genre each time that writing was required would make the writing process much longer, as we wouldnot have past responses to help us with present ones (Devitt, 1993, p. 576).

References

Devitt, A. J. (1993). Generalizing about genre: New conceptions of an old concept. College Composition and Communication, 44(4), 573-586.

Dirk, K. (2010). Navigating genres. Writing spaces, 249.

Miller, C. R. (1994). Rhetorical community: The cultural basis of genre. Genre and the new           rhetoric, 6778.