@inbook {962, title = {Four Ways to Investigate Assemblages of Texts: Genre Sets, Systems, Repertoires, and Ecologies}, booktitle = {22nd Annual International Conference on Design of Communication: The Engineering of Quality Documentation}, year = {2004}, month = {2004}, pages = {110{\textendash}116}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, organization = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {Memphis, TN}, abstract = {Genre theorists agree that genres work together in assemblages.But what is the nature of these assemblages? In this paper I describe four frameworks that have been used to describe assemblages of genres: genre sets, genre systems, genre repertoires, and genre ecologies. At first glance, they seem to be interchangeable, but there are definite and sometimes quite deep differences among them. I compare and contrast these frameworks and suggest when each might be most useful. }, keywords = {ecology, genre, repertoire, set, system}, url = {http://www.lib.ncsu.edu:2268/10.1145/1026533.1026560}, author = {Spinuzzi, Clay} }