Genre and the new rhetoric / edited by Aviva Freedman and Peter Medway. - xi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Critical perspectives on literacy and education . - Critical perspectives on literacy and education. .

Series statement from book jacket. "Most of the essays in this collection were first presented as papers at a colloquium, entitled 'Rethinking Genre' held at Carleton University, Ottawa April 1992"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Locating Genre Studies: Antecedents and Prospects -- Genre as Social Action -- Anyone for Tennis? -- Rhetorical Community: The Cultural Basis of Genre -- Systems of Genres and the Enactment of Social Intentions -- The Lab vs. The Clinic: Sites of Competing Genres -- On Definition and Rhetorical Genre -- A Genre Map of R&D Knowledge Production for the US Department of Defense -- Observing Genres in Action: Towards a Research Methodology -- Genre and the Pragmatic Concept of Background Knowledge -- 'An Arousing and Fulfilment of Desires': The Rhetoric of Genre in the Process Era - and Beyond -- 'Do As I Say': The Relationship between Teaching and Learning New Genres -- Traffic in Genres, In Classrooms and Out -- Notes on Contributors -- Index. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13.

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Literary form
Rhetoric
Literature--Study and teaching

PN45.5. / G458 1994

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