Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy

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Parlor Press LLC, Mar 8, 2010 - Literary Criticism - 278 pages
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GENRE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PEDAGOGY provides a critical overview of the rich body of scholarship that has informed a “genre turn” in Rhetoric and Composition, including a range of interdisciplinary perspectives from rhetorical theory, applied linguistics, sociology, philosophy, cognitive psychology, and literary theory.

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Contents

Series Editors Preface
Genre in Literary Traditions
Systemic Functional and Corpus Linguistics
English for Specific Purposes
Genre in Rhetorical and Sociological Traditions
Rhetorical Genre Studies
Genre Research in Academic Contexts
Genre Research in Workplace and Professional Contexts
Genre Research in Public and New Media Contexts
Multiple Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching
Rhetorical Genre Studies Approaches to Teaching Writing
Glossary
Annotated Bibliography
Notes
About the Authors
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About the author (2010)

Anis Bawarshi is Associate professor of English and Director of the Expository Writing Program at the University of Washington and author of Genre and the Invention of the Writer: Reconsidering the Place of Invention in Composition (2003); Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres (2004; with Amy Devitt and Mary Jo Reiff); A Closer Look: A Writer’s Reader (2003; with Sidney I. Dobrin).

Mary Jo Reiff is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and author of Approaches to Audience: An Overview of the Major Perspectives (2004), co-author (with Amy Devitt and Anis Bawarshi) of Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres (2004), and co-editor (with Kirsten Benson) of Rhetoric of Inquiry (2009).

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TitleGenre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy
Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
AuthorsAnis S. Bawarshi, Mary Jo Reiff
PublisherParlor Press LLC, 2010
ISBN1602351732, 9781602351738
Length278 pages
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Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric
Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / General
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
  
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