@article {596,
	title = {Toward a Unified Social Theory of Genre Learning},
	journal = {Journal of Business \& Technical Communication},
	volume = {22},
	year = {2008},
	note = {+ pdf},
	month = {2008},
	pages = {160{\textendash}185},
	abstract = {This article discusses the development of a unified social theory of genrelearning based on the integration of rhetorical genre studies, activity theory,
and the situated learning perspective. The article proposes that these three
theoretical perspectives are compatible and complementary, and it illustrates
applications of a unified framework to a study of genre learning by novice
engineers. The author draws examples from a longitudinal qualitative study
of a group of novice engineers who developed their professional genre
knowledge through both academic and workplace experiences. These examples
illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework for the study of
professional genre learning.
},
	keywords = {activity theory, engineering communication, genre, situated learning},
	author = {Artemeva, Natasha}
}
@article {599,
	title = {{\textquoteright}Just the Boys Playing on Computers{\textquoteright}: An Activity Theory Analysis of Differences in the Cultures of Two Engineering Firms},
	journal = {Journal of Business and Technical Communication},
	volume = {15},
	year = {2001},
	month = {2001},
	pages = {164{\textendash}194},
	keywords = {activity theory, engineering, genre},
	author = {Artemeva, Natalia and Freedman, Aviva}
}
@booklet {629,
	title = {Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity Perspectives},
	year = {2003},
	month = {2003},
	publisher = {The WAC Clearinghouse and Mind, Culture, and Activity},
	address = {Fort Collins, CO},
	keywords = {activity theory, dissertation, Flower, Geisler, genre, Giltrow, Prior, public policy, Schryer, Spinuzzi},
	isbn = {0-9727023-1-8},
	url = {http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/index.cfm},
	author = {Bazerman, Charles and Russell, David}
}
@article {636,
	title = {Genre Systems at Work: DSM-IV and Rhetorical Recontextualization in Psychotherapy Paperwork},
	journal = {Written Communication},
	volume = {18},
	year = {2001},
	note = {Phelps 798 paper S08},
	month = {2001},
	pages = {326{\textendash}349},
	keywords = {activity theory, genre, system},
	author = {Berkenkotter, Carol}
}
@article {637,
	title = {Rethinking Genre from a Sociocognitive Perspective},
	journal = {Written Communication},
	volume = {10},
	year = {1993},
	note = {+ pdf},
	month = {1993},
	pages = {475{\textendash}509},
	abstract = {This article argues for an activity-based theory of genre knowledge. Drawing on empirical findings from case study research emphasizing "insider knowledge" and on structuration theory, activity theory, and rhetorical studies, the authors propose five general principles for genre theory: (a) Genres are dynamic forms that mediate between the unique features of individual contexts and the features that recur across contexts; (b) genre knowledge is embedded in communicative activities of daily and professional life and is thus a form of "situated cognition"; (c) genre knowledge embraces both form and content, including a sense of rhetorical appropriateness; (d) the use of genres simultaneously constitutes and reproduces social structures; and (e) genre conventions signal a discourse community{\textquoteright}s norms, epistemology, ideology, and social ontology.},
	keywords = {activity theory, discourse community, situated cognition, structuration theory},
	author = {Berkenkotter, Carol and Huckin, Thomas N.}
}
@booklet {682,
	title = {The Rhetoric and Ideology of Genre: Strategies for Stability and Change},
	howpublished = {Research and Teaching in Rhetoric and Composition},
	year = {2002},
	note = {+},
	month = {2002},
	publisher = {Hampton Press},
	address = {Cresskill, NJ},
	keywords = {activity theory, Bazerman, Freadman, genre, Giltrow, Knapp, Martin, Medway, meta-genre, Pare, Russell, Schryer, Segal},
	isbn = {1-57273-384-5},
	author = {Coe, Richard M. and Lingard, Lorelei and Teslenko, Tatiana}
}
@article {814,
	title = {Building Context: Using Activity Theory to Teach about Genre in Multi-Major Professional Communication Courses},
	journal = {Technical Communication Quarterly},
	volume = {14},
	year = {2005},
	month = {2005},
	pages = {113{\textendash}139},
	keywords = {activity theory, genre, teaching, technical writing},
	author = {Kain, Donna and Wardle, Elizabeth}
}
@article {1396,
	title = {CMSs, Bittorrent Trackers and Large-Scale Rhetorical Genres: Analyzing Collective Activity in Participatory Digital Spaces},
	journal = {Journal of Technical Writing and Communication},
	volume = {46},
	year = {2016},
	abstract = {<p>Scholars of rhetoric and writing have long recognized the mediated nature of rhetorical action. From Plato{\textquoteright}s early indictments of writing as enemy of memoria to Burke{\textquoteright}s recognition of instrumental causes to recent analyses of digital mediation (Haas 1996; Spinuzzi 2008; Swarts 2008; Ittersum and Ching 2013), the study of meaning-making refuses one-to-one, transparent theories of communication, instead recognizing that there{\textquoteright}s more to rhetorical action than humans. This article follows the trail of Haas, Swarts and others, arguing that analyses of mediation uncover much about human motives, digital communities and rhetorical action. I argue that technologies often function as rhetorical genres, providing what Miller characterizes as {\textquotedblleft}typified rhetorical actions based in recurrent situations{\textquotedblright} that occur in uniquely digital spaces (159). Working from sites of participatory archival creation and curation[1], I argue that invisible rhetorical genres operating at macroscopic levels of scale are central to shaping individual and communal activity in sites of distributed social production. To support this claim, I investigate two applications {\textendash} a content management system (CMS) called Gazelle and a bittorrent tracker called Ocelot {\textendash} to demonstrate how largely invisible server-side software shapes rhetorical action, circumscribes individual agency and cultivates community identity in sites of participatory archival curation. By articulating CMSs and other macroscopic software as rhetorical genres, I hope to extend nascent investigations into the medial capacities of digital tools that shape our collective digital experience.</p>
},
	keywords = {activity theory, CMS, content management system, digital tools, participatory archives, piracy, rhetorical genre studies, user-experience design, UX},
	doi = {10.1177/0047281615600634},
	url = {http://jtw.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/09/09/0047281615600634},
	author = {Lewis, Justin}
}
@inbook {942,
	title = {Structure and Agency in Medical Case Presentations},
	booktitle = {Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity Perspectives},
	year = {2003},
	note = {+ pdf rhet},
	month = {2003},
	pages = {62{\textendash}96},
	publisher = {The WAC Clearinghouse and Mind, Culture, and Activity},
	organization = {The WAC Clearinghouse and Mind, Culture, and Activity},
	address = {Fort Collins, CO},
	keywords = {activity theory, agency, Bourdieu, genre, Giddens, self, structure, system},
	url = {http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/index.cfm},
	author = {Schryer, Catherine F. and Lingard, Lorelei and Spafford, Marlee and Garwood, Kim},
	editor = {Bazerman, Charles and Russell, David}
}
@conference {959,
	title = {Modeling Genre Ecologies},
	booktitle = {20th Annual International Conference on Computer Documentation},
	year = {2002},
	month = {2002},
	pages = {200{\textendash}207},
	publisher = {ACM Press},
	organization = {ACM Press},
	abstract = {The genre ecology framework is an analytical framework forstudying how people use multiple artifacts {\textendash} such as
documentation, interfaces, and annotations {\textendash} to mediate their
work activities. Unlike other analytical frameworks, the genre
ecology framework has been developed particularly for technical
communication research, particularly in its emphasis on
interpretation, contingency, and stability. Although this
framework shows much promise, it is more of a heuristic than a
formal modeling tool; it helps researchers to pull together
impressions, similar to contextual design{\textquoteright}s work models, but it
has not been implemented as formally as distributed cognition{\textquoteright}s
functional systems.
In this paper, I move toward a formal modeling of genre
ecologies. First, I describe the preliminary results of an
observational study of seven workers in two different functional
teams of a medium-sized telecommunications company (a subset
of a larger, 89-worker study). I use these preliminary results to
develop a model of the genres used by these two teams, how those
genres interconnect to co-mediate the workers{\textquoteright} activities, and the
breakdowns that the workers encounter as genres travel across the
boundaries of the two teams. I conclude by (a) describing how
formal models of genre ecologies can help in planning and
designing computer documentation and (b) discussing how these
models can be further developed.
},
	keywords = {activity theory, compound mediation, genre, genre ecology, tracing},
	author = {Spinuzzi, Clay}
}
@inbook {960,
	title = {Compound Mediation in Software Development: Using Genre Ecologies to Study Textual Artifacts},
	booktitle = {Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity Perspectives},
	year = {2003},
	note = {+ pdf rhet},
	month = {2003},
	pages = {97{\textendash}124},
	publisher = {The WAC Clearinghouse and Mind, Culture, and Activity},
	organization = {The WAC Clearinghouse and Mind, Culture, and Activity},
	address = {Fort Collins, CO},
	keywords = {activity theory, ecology, genre, mediation, text},
	url = {http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/index.cfm},
	author = {Spinuzzi, Clay},
	editor = {Bazerman, Charles and Russell, David}
}
@article {1007,
	title = {Genre and Activity Systems: The Role of Documentation in Maintaining and Changing Engineering Activity Systems},
	journal = {Written Communication},
	volume = {16},
	year = {1999},
	note = {+ j},
	month = {1999},
	pages = {200{\textendash}224},
	keywords = {actant, activity theory, agency, ANT, AT, change, context, genre, Latour, text, workplace document},
	author = {Winsor, Dorothy A.}
}
@article {1019,
	title = {Communicative Practices in the Workplace: A Historical Examination of Genre Development},
	journal = {Journal of Technical Writing and Communication},
	volume = {30},
	year = {2000},
	note = {+ pdf rhet+ genre-comp
},
	month = {2000},
	pages = {57{\textendash}79},
	keywords = {activity theory, evolution, genre, history, organizational communication, workplace},
	author = {Zachry, Mark}
}
