Writing Genres

by Amy J. Devitt

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809328690
• ISBN13: 9780809328697
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"