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      Observing Genres in Action: Towards a Research Methodology
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      Observing Genres in Action: Towards a Research Methodology

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      Observing Genres in Action: Towards a Research Methodology book

      Edited ByAviva Freedman, Peter Medway
      BookGenre In The New Rhetoric

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1994
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 8
      eBook ISBN 9780203393277
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      ABSTRACT

      Until recently the study of written genres focused on textual patterns. When researchers wanted to examine a particular genre, they looked across multiple texts for regularities of form and effect. Over the last decade, scholars in composition studies have been reinterpreting genre as social action: a complex pattern of repeated social activity and rhetorical performance arising in response to a recurrent situation. This reinterpretation presents a dilemma for the researcher who wishes to observe a particular genre in a specific setting. When conceived as social action, what, in addition to texts, are the observable constituent elements of a genre? And what are the relationships among the elements?

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