Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition

      Series Editor, Charles Bazerman

      The Series provides compact, comprehensive and convenient surveys of what has been learned through research and practice as composition has emerged as an academic discipline over the last half century. Each volume is devoted to a single topic that has been of interest in rhetoric and composition in recent years, to synthesize and make available the sum and parts of what has been learned on that topic. These reference guides are designed to help deepen classroom practice by making available the collective wisdom of the field and will provide the basis for new research. The Series is intended to be of use to teachers at all levels of education, researchers and scholars of writing, graduate students learning about the field, and all who have interest in or responsibility for writing programs and the teaching of writing.

      Parlor Press and The WAC Clearinghouse are collaborating so that these books will be widely available through low-cost print editions and free digital distribution. The publishers and the Series editor are teachers and researchers of writing, committed to the principle that knowledge should freely circulate. We see the opportunities that new technologies have for further democratizing knowledge. And we see that to share the power of writing is to share the means for all to articulate their needs, interest, and learning into the great experiment of literacy.

      Existing Books in the Series

      Invention in Rhetoric and Composition (2004, Lauer)

      Reference Guide to Writing across the Curriculum (2005, Bazerman, Little, Bethel, Chavkin, Fouquette, and Garufis)

      Revision: History, Theory, and Practice (2006, Horning and Becker)

      Writing Program Administration (2007, McLeod)

      Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics (2008, Long)

      Argument in Composition (2009, Ramage, Callaway, Clary-Lemon, and Waggoner)

      Basic Writing (2010, Otte and Mlynarczyk)

      Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy (2010, Bawarshi and Reiff)

      Genre

      An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy

      Anis S. Bawarshi and Mary Jo Reiff

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      West Lafayette, Indiana

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      © 2010 by Parlor Press and The WAC Clearinghouse

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Bawarshi, Anis S.

      Genre : an introduction to history, theory, research, and pedagogy / Anis S. Bawarshi and Mary Jo Reiff.

      p. cm. -- (Reference guides to rhetoric and composition)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-1-60235-171-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-170-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-172-1 (adobe ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-173-8 (epub ebook)

      1. Literary form--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Literary form--Study and teaching--Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Reiff, Mary Jo. II. Title.

      PN45.5.B36 2010

      808’.0066--dc22

      2010008725

      Series logo designed by Karl Stolley. Copyediting by Rebecca Longster.

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Parlor Press, LLC is an independent publisher of scholarly and trade titles in print and multimedia formats. This book is available in paperback, cloth, and Adobe eBook formats from Parlor Press on the World Wide Web at http://www.parlorpress.com. For submission information or to find out about Parlor Press publications, write to Parlor Press, 816 Robinson St., West Lafayette, Indiana, 47906, or e-mail [email protected].

      The WAC Clearinghouse supports teachers of writing across the disciplines. Hosted by Colorado State University’s Composition Program, it brings together four journals, three book series, and resources for teachers who use writing in their courses. This book will also be available free on the Internet at The WAC Clearinghouse (http://wac.colostate.edu/).

      In memory of Larry Tinklepaugh (1938-2005)

      To Aden and Daliah

      Contents

       Series Editor’s Preface

       Acknowledgments

       1 Introduction and Overview

       Overview of the Book

       2 Genre in Literary Traditions

       Neoclassical Approaches to Genre

       Structuralist Approaches to Genre

       Romantic and Post-Romantic Approaches to Genre

       Reader Response Approaches to Genre

       Cultural Studies Approaches to Genre

       3 Genre in Linguistic Traditions: Systemic Functional and Corpus Linguistics

       Genre and Systemic Functional Linguistics

       Genre and Historical/Corpus Linguistics

       4 Genre in Linguistic Traditions: English for Specific Purposes

       ESP and SFL: Similarities and Distinctions

       Discourse Community, Communicative Purpose, and Genre

       ESP Approaches to Genre Analysis

       Recent Developments in ESP Genre Study

       ESP and Critical Approaches to Genre

       5 Genre in Rhetorical and Sociological Traditions