Defining+Genre

= What is a //genre//? = = =

**Initial Thoughts from Class:**

 * ====A type of literature====
 * ====A category====
 * ====A template====
 * ====A mode of communicating====

~ We can complicate this a little bit with Kress’ //Literacy in the New Media Age// (2003):

 * Social actions shape the generation of texts in different modes, and we always encounter texts as ** genres ** reflecting these social relations. Genre knowledge, in terms of understanding their composition, their place in hierarchies of power, and being able to produce them, have become the sign of a truly literate person.
 * ====Mixing of modes—multimodal—two logics, writing and image, are brought together on webpages, hypertext, street signs, science textbooks, multigenre novels and multigenre research papers, graphic novels, etc.====
 * ====Especially true when considering New Media (e.g., Web 2.0 applications, digital video, gaming, virtual reality, etc.)====

====//** Genre **//—a text type, print or nonprint, that we can expect to look similar in form most of the time we encounter it with the realization that we also need to make critical considerations of this text in relationship to purpose, audience, mode, social construction, and intertextuality====