%0 Book Section %B Annual Review of Information Science and Technology: 2008 %D 2008 %T The Concept of Genre in Information Studies %A Andersen, Jack %E Cronin, Blaise %K genre %K information studies %K knowledge organization %B Annual Review of Information Science and Technology: 2008 %I Information Today, Inc. %C Medford, NJ %V 42 %P 339–366 %8 2008 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Rhetoric Society Quarterly %D 1977 %T On the Classification of Discourse Performances %A Beale, Walter H. %K genre %B Rhetoric Society Quarterly %V 7 %P 31–40 %8 1977 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology %D 2001 %T The Concept of Genre and Its Characteristics %A Beghtol, Clare %K expectation %K genre %K information systems %K typology %B Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology %V 27 %P http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Dec-01/beghtol.html %8 2001 %G eng %U http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Dec-01/beghtol.html %0 Journal Article %J IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication %D 2012 %T The Corporate Social Responsibility Report: The Hybridization of a ìConfusedî Genre (2007ñ2011) %A Bhatia, A %B IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication %V 55 %P 221-238 %G eng %U http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6247487 %R 10.1109/TPC.2012.2205732 %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Technical Writing and Communication %D 1999 %T A Computer Writing Environment for Professional Writers and Students Learning to Write %A Bisaillon, Jocelyne %A Clerc, Isabelle %A Ladouceur, Jacques %B Journal of Technical Writing and Communication %V 29 %P 185-202 %G eng %R 10.2190/KJ2T-2721-CVYP-GWG5 %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Technical Writing and Communication %D 1988 %T The Components of Purpose and Professional-Communication Pedagogy %A Blyler, Nancy Roundy %B Journal of Technical Writing and Communication %V 18 %P 23-33 %G eng %R 10.2190/9XQ1-11A6-WQ0Y-V2TB %0 Journal Article %J Theory, Culture, & Society %D 2006 %T Classification %A Boyne, Roy %K classification %K identity %K representation %K subjectivity %K universals %B Theory, Culture, & Society %V 23 %P 21–50 %8 2006 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Technical Writing and Communication %D 2014 %T Catechesis of Technology: The Short Life of American Technical Catechism Genre 1884-1926 %A Brockmann, Rev. R. J %B Journal of Technical Writing and Communication %V 44 %P 121-140 %G eng %R 10.2190/TW.44.2.b %0 Journal Article %J Journal of English for Academic Purposes %D 2008 %T Cognitive genre structures in Methods sections of research articles: A corpus study %A Bruce, Ian %K Cognitive genre %K English for academic purposes %K genre %K Methods sections %K Procedural knowledge %K Text type %X
This paper reports a corpus investigation of the Methods sections of research-reporting articles in academic journals. In published pedagogic materials, Swales and Feak [Swales, J. M., & Feak, C. (1994). Academic writing for graduate students. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; Swales, J. M., & Feak, C. (2000). English in today's research world. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.], while not offering a generic structure, discuss the tendencies for Methods sections reporting research in the social sciences to be slow (or extended), and those in the physical sciences, such as medicine and engineering, to be fast (or compressed) – the metaphors of speed or density relating to the degree of elaboration employed in describing and justifying the research design and process. The aim of this study is to examine the differences between fast and slow tendencies in Methods sections in terms of their internal, cognitive discourse organization. Two small corpora, each consisting of thirty Methods sections (one for each of the two groups of subjects), are analyzed in two ways. First the corpora are rater-analyzed for their use of the organizational features of a cognitive genre model for textual structures (see Bruce, I. J. (2005). Syllabus design for general EAP courses: a cognitive approach. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 4(3), 239–256.) and secondly by the use of corpus software for linguistic features that characterize the model. The findings of the study suggest that ‘fast’ Methods sections that report research in the physical sciences generally employ a means-focused discourse structure, and ‘slow’ Methods sections in social science reports tend to employ a combination of chronological and non-sequential descriptive structures. The study concludes that learner writers may benefit from access to the types of general, procedural knowledge that these discoursal structures employ.
%B Journal of English for Academic Purposes %V 7 %P 38 - 54 %8 04/2008 %@ 1475-1585 %G eng %U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1475158507000689 %N 1 %0 Journal Article %J Reading Online %D 2001 %T Considering Genre in the Digital Literacy Classroom %A Chandler-Olcott, Kelly %A Mahar, Donna %K classroom %K education %K genre %K literacy %K shrine %K webpage %B Reading Online %V 5 %P http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?HREF=/electronic/chandler/index.html %8 2001 %G eng %U http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?HREF=/electronic/chandler/index.html %0 Conference Paper %B Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications %D 2007 %T Classifying XML Documents by Using Genre Features %A Clark, Malcolm %A Watt, Stuart %XThe categorization of documents is traditionally
topic-based. This paper presents a complementary
analysis of research and experiments on genre to show
that encouraging results can be obtained by using
genre structure (form) features. We conducted an
experiment to assess the effectiveness of using
extensible mark-up language (XML) tag information,
and part-of-speech (P-O-S) features, for the
classification of genres, testing the hypothesis that if a
focus on genre can lead to high precision on normal
textual documents, then good results can be achieved
using XML tag information in addition to P-O-S
information. An experiment was carried out on a
subsection of the initiative for the evaluation of XML
(INEX) 1.4 collection. The features were extracted and
documents were classified using machine learning
algorithms, which yielded encouraging results for
logistic regression and neural networks. We propose
that utilizing these features and training a classifier
may benefit retrieval for most world wide web (WWW)
technologies such as XML and extensible hypertext
markup language) XHTML.
This paper presents the results of a genre analysis of two web-based collaborative authoring environments, Wikipedia and Everything2, both of which are intended as repositories of encyclopedic knowledge and are open to contributions from the public. Using corpus linguistic methods and factor analysis of word counts for features of formality and informality, we show that the greater the degree of post-production editorial control afforded by the system, the more formal and standardized the language of the collaboratively-authored documents becomes, analogous to that found in traditional print encyclopedias. Paradoxically, users who faithfully appropriate such systems create homogeneous entries, at odds with the goal of open-access authoring environments to create diverse content. The findings shed light on how users, acting through mechanisms provided by the system, can shape (or not) features of content in particular ways. We conclude by identifying sub-genres of web-based collaborative authoring environments based on their technical affordances.
%B Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Science %I IEEE Computer Society Press %C Los Alamitos, CA %P 99a– %8 2005 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J New Literary History %D 2003 %T Classical Genre in Theory and Practice %A Farrell, Joseph %K classical literature %K genre %K practice %K theory %B New Literary History %V 34 %P 383–408 %8 2003 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Computers and Composition %D 2007 %T CMS-based simulations in the writing classroom: Evoking genre through game play %A David Fisher %K Computer-supported collaborative learning %B Computers and Composition %V 24 %P 179 - 197 %G eng %U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755461506000387 %R http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2006.06.004 %0 Journal Article %J College Composition and Communication %D 2010 %T Composition 2.0: Toward a multilingual and multimodal framework %A Fraiberg, Steven %B College Composition and Communication %V 62 %P 100–126 %G eng %0 Book %D 1979 %T Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure and Contradiction in Social Analysis %A Giddens, Anthony %I University of California Press %C Berkeley, CA %G eng %0 Book %D 1984 %T The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structure %A Giddens, Anthony %I University of California Press %C Berkeley %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Business and Technical Communication %D 1996 %T 'Cover your Tracks': A Case Study of Genre, Rhetoric, and Ideology in Two Psycholegal Reports %A Goodwin, Jill Tomasson %B Journal of Business and Technical Communication %V 10 %P 167-186 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J PMLA %D 2013 %T Come Be My Love: The Song of Songs, Paradise Lost, and the Tradition of the Invitation Poem %A Erik Gray %XThe invitation poem, in which the beloved is urged to come away to an idealized place, is among the most enduring genres of European love poetry. The tradition begins with the biblical Song of Songs, which sets several important precedents: a dialogic framework, a close association of lover and landscape, and a sense of love as exile. Medieval and Renaissance invitation poems follow the Song of Songs but shift its emphases toward monologue, materialism, and importunity. Milton thus inherits a dual tradition of invitational poetry, both aspects of which figure prominently in Paradise Lost. Recognizing the traditional features of the genre therefore illuminates significant moments in the epic, including, notably, Eve’s final speech. The invitational tropes in this passage reveal how Eve reconceives of exile as homecoming and how she reestablishes a sense of radical mutuality with Adam by completing a dialogue that began before the Fall. (EG)
%B PMLA %V 128 %P 373-85 %8 03/2013 %G eng %N 2 %& 373 %0 Book Section %B Form and Genre: Shaping Rhetorical Action %D 1978 %T Celluloid Rhetoric: On Genres of Documentary %A Gronbeck, Bruce %E Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs %E Jamieson, Kathleen Hall %K genre %B Form and Genre: Shaping Rhetorical Action %I Speech Communication Association %C Falls Church, VA %P 139–161 %8 1978 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Technical Writing and Communication %D 1986 %T Computer Manuals for Novices: The Rhetorical Situation %A Hals, Ronald %B Journal of Technical Writing and Communication %V 16 %P 105-120 %G eng %R 10.2190/VGBL-H297-QGXE-QWNJ %0 Journal Article %J Technical Communication Quarterly %D 2007 %T Coming to Content Management: Inventing Infrastructure for Organizational Knowledge Work %A Hart-Davidson, William %A Bernhardt, Grace %A McLeod, Michael %A Rife, Martine %A Grabill, Jeffrey T. %B Technical Communication Quarterly %V 17 %P 10-34 %G eng %U http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10572250701588608 %R 10.1080/10572250701588608 %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Business and Technical Communication %D 2010 %T Creating Procedural Discourse and Knowledge for Software Users: Beyond Translation and Transmission %A Hovde, Marjorie Rush %B Journal of Business and Technical Communication %V 24 %P 164-205 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J English for Specific Purposes %D 2008 %T Convention and inventiveness in an occluded academic genre: A case study of retention–promotion–tenure reports %A Hyon, Sunny %K academic writing %K occluded genre %K uptake %B English for Specific Purposes %V 27 %P 175–192 %G eng %N 2 %0 Journal Article %J Library Trends %D 2004 %T Classification and Categorization: A Difference that Makes a Difference %A Jacob, Elin K. %K categorization %K category %K class %K classification %X Examination of the systemic properties and forms of interactionthat characterize classification and categorization reveals fundamental syntactic differences between the structure of classification systems and the structure of categorization systems. These distinctions lead to meaningful differences in the contexts within which information can be apprehended and influence the semantic information available to the individual. Structural and semantic differences between classification and categorization are differences that make a difference in the information environment by influencing the functional activities of an information system and by contributing to its constitution as an information environment. %B Library Trends %V 52 %P 515–540 %8 2004 %G eng %U https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/1686 %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Second Language Writing %D 2006 %T Crossing the Boundaries of Genre Studies: Commentaries by Experts %A Johns, Ann M. %E Bawarshi, Anis %E Coe, Richard M. %E Hyland, Ken %E Paltridge, Brian %E Reiff, Mary Jo %E Tardy, Christine %B Journal of Second Language Writing %V 15 %P 234–249 %8 09/2006 %G eng %N 3 %9 Print %& 234 %0 Journal Article %J Technical Communication Quarterly %D 2008 %T Conservation Writing: An Emerging Field in Technical Communication %A Johnson-Sheehan, Richard %A Morgan, Larry %B Technical Communication Quarterly %V 18 %P 9/27/2015 %G eng %U http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10572250802437283 %R 10.1080/10572250802437283 %0 Journal Article %J Technical Communication Quarterly %D 2005 %T Constructing Genre: A Threefold Typology %A Kain, Donna J. %B Technical Communication Quarterly %V 14 %P 375-409 %G eng %U http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15427625tcq1404_2 %R 10.1207/s15427625tcq1404_2 %0 Journal Article %J Technical Communication Quarterly %D 2005 %T Constructing Genre: A Threefold Typology %A Kain, Donna %K audience %K discipline %K discourse community %K genre %B Technical Communication Quarterly %V 14 %P 375–409 %8 2005 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Reading Research Quarterly %D 1999 %T Cultural Artifacts as Scaffolds for Genre Development %A Kamberelis, G. %A Bovino, T. %B Reading Research Quarterly %V 34 %P 138-170 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication %D 2006 %T A Corpus Study of Canned Letters: Mining the Latent Rhetorical Proficiencies Marketed to Writers-in-a-Hurry and Non-Writers %A Kaufer, D. %A Ishizaki, S. %B IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication %V 49 %P 254-266 %G eng %U http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=1684207 %R 10.1109/TPC.2006.880743 %0 Journal Article %J Genre %D 1983 %T The Classification of Genres %A Kent, Thomas L. %K formalism %K genre %K hybrid %K literature %B Genre %V 16 %P 1–20 %8 1983 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J American Sociological Review %D 2008 %T "Classification as Culture: Types and Trajectories of Music Genres." %A Lena, Jennifer C. %A Peterson, Richard A. %K classification %K music %XQuestions of symbolic classification have been central to sociology since its earliest days, given the relevance of distinctions for both affiliation and conflict. Music and its genres are no exception, organizing people and songs within a system of symbolic classification. Numerous studies chronicle the history of specific genres of music, but none document recurrent processes of development and change across musics. In this article, we analyze 60 musics in the United States, delineating between 12 social, organizational, and symbolic attributes. We find four distinct genre types—Avant-garde, Scene-based, Industry-based, and Traditionalist. We also find that these genre types combine to form three distinct trajectories. Two-thirds originate in an Avant-garde genre, and the rest originate as a scene or, to our surprise, in an Industry-based genre. We conclude by discussing a number of questions raised by our findings, including the implications for understanding symbolic classification in fields other than music.
%B American Sociological Review %V 73 %8 2008 %G eng %9 Research %& 697 %0 Journal Article %J Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics %D 2009 %T Cost-Sensitive Feature Extraction and Selection in Genre Classification %A Levering, Ryan %A Cutler, Michal %K automation %K classificaiton %K digital %K genre %K information science %K web %X Automatic genre classification of Web pages is currently young comparedto other Web classification tasks. Corpora are just starting to be collected and organized in a systematic way, feature extraction techniques are incon sistent and not well detailed, genres are constantly in dispute, and novel applications have not been implemented. This paper attempts to review and make progress in the area of feature extraction, an area that we believe can benefit all Web page classification, and genre classification in particular. We first present a framework for the extraction of various Web-specific feature groups from distinct data models based on a tree of potentials models and the transformations that create them. Then we introduce the concept of cost-sensitivity to this tree and provide an algorithm for per forming wrapper-based feature selection on this tree. Finally, we apply the cost-sensitive feature selection algorithm on two genre corpora and analyze the performance of the classification results. %B Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics %V 24 %P 57–72 %8 2009 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Technical Writing and Communication %D 2016 %T CMSs, Bittorrent Trackers and Large-Scale Rhetorical Genres: Analyzing Collective Activity in Participatory Digital Spaces %A Lewis, Justin %K activity theory %K CMS %K content management system %K digital tools %K participatory archives %K piracy %K rhetorical genre studies %K user-experience design %K UX %XScholars of rhetoric and writing have long recognized the mediated nature of rhetorical action. From Plato’s early indictments of writing as enemy of memoria to Burke’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’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 “typified rhetorical actions based in recurrent situations” 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 – a content management system (CMS) called Gazelle and a bittorrent tracker called Ocelot – 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.
%B Journal of Technical Writing and Communication %V 46 %G eng %U http://jtw.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/09/09/0047281615600634 %N 1 %R 10.1177/0047281615600634 %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Technical Writing & Communication %D 2016 %T Content Management Systems, Bittorrent Trackers, and Large-Scale Rhetorical Genres %A Lewis, Justin %B Journal of Technical Writing & Communication %V 46 %P 4–26 %G eng %U http://proxying.lib.ncsu.edu/index.php?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cms&AN=111378996&site=ehost-live&scope=site %R 10.1177/0047281615600634 %0 Journal Article %J International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning %D 2006 %T Conducting Genre Convergence for Learning %A Liestøl, Gunnar %K convergence %K detective story %K digital media %K genre %K innovation %K invention %K learning %K Poe %K topos %B International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning %V 16 %P 255–270 %8 2006 %G eng %0 Conference Paper %B World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications %D 2007 %T The Convergence of Real Space and Hyperspace: Preflections on Mobility, Localization, and Multimodality %A Liestøl, Gunnar %K cartography %K encyclopedia %K invention %K meaningware %K rhetoric %B World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications %I Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education %C Vancouver, CA %P 1423–1429 %8 2007 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J The Iowa Review %D 2006 %T Curiouser and Curiouser: The Practice of Nonfiction Today %A Phillip Lopate %K creative nonfiction %K creative writing %K essay %B The Iowa Review %V 36 %G eng %N 1 %0 Book Section %B The Dialogical Alternative %D 1992 %T On the Communicative Adjustment of Perspectives, Dialogue and Communicative Genres %A Luckmann, Thomas %E Wold, Astri Heen %K dialogue %K genre %B The Dialogical Alternative %I Scandinavian University Press %C Oslo %P 219–234 %8 1992 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J New Media & Society %D 2008 %T Conceptualizing Personal Media %A Lüders, Marika %K CMC %K communication %K genre %K medium theory %K multimodality %X The digitalization and personal use of mediatechnologies have destabilized the traditional dichotomization between mass communication and interpersonal communication, and therefore between mass media and personal media (e.g. mobile phones, email, instant messenger, blogs and photo-sharing services). As private individuals use media technologies to create and share personal expressions through digital networks, previous characteristics of mass media as providers of generally accessible information are no longer accurate.This article may be situated within a medium-theoretical tradition, as it elucidates technical and social dimensions of personal media and revises the distinction between mass media and personal media. A two-dimensional model suggests locating personal media and mass media according to an interactional axis and an institutional/professional axis: personal media are de-institutionalized/de-professionalized and facilitate mediated interaction.The implementation of digital media technologies has important consequences for social networks and fits well within a theoretical discussion of the post-traditional self. %B New Media & Society %V 10 %P 683–702 %8 2008 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Written Communication %D 2017 %T Connecting Genres and Languages in Online Scholarly Communication: An Analysis of Research Group Blogs %A Luzón, María José %XBlogs provide an open space for scholars to share information, communicate about their research, and reach a diversified audience. Posts in academic blogs are usually hybrid texts where various genres are connected and recontextualized; yet little research has examined how these genres function together to support scholars’ activity. The purpose of this article is to analyze how the affordances of new media enable the integration of different genres and different languages in research group blogs written by multilingual scholars and to explore how various genres are coordinated in these blogs to accomplish specific tasks. The study reported in this article shows that the functionalities of the digital medium allow research groups to incorporate myriad genres into their genre ecology and interconnect these genres in opportunistic ways to accomplish complex objectives: specifically, to publicize the group’s research and activities, make the work of the group members available to the disciplinary community, strengthen social links within their community and connect with the interested public, and raise social awareness. Findings from this study provide insights into the ways in which scholars write networked, multimedia, multigenre texts to support the group’s social and work activity.
%B Written Communication %V 341213 %P 441 - 471 %G eng %U http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0741088317726298http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0741088317726298http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0741088317726298http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0741088317726298 %N 433 %! Connecting genres and languages %R 10.1177/0741088317726298 %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Business and Technical Communication %D 2007 %T Compliments and Criticisms in Book Reviews About Business Communication %A Mackiewicz, Jo %B Journal of Business and Technical Communication %V 21 %P 188-215 %G eng %0 Book %D 1980 %T Convention, 1500–1750 %A Manley, Lawrence %K convention %K custom %K decorum %K genre %K Renaissance %I Harvard University Press %C Cambridge, MA %8 1980 %G eng %0 Book %D 1995 %T The Catechism Yesterday and Today: The Evolution of a Genre %A Marthaler, Berard L. %K catechism %K genre %I Liturgical Press %C Collegeville, MD %8 1995 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Business and Technical Communication %D 2012 %T Communicating a Green Corporate Perspective: Ideological Persuasion in the Corporate Environmental Report %A Mason, Marianne %A Mason, Robert D. %B Journal of Business and Technical Communication %V 26 %P 479-506 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Business and Technical Communication %D 2011 %T Content Management in the Workplace: Community, Context, and a New Way to Organize Writing %A McCarthy, Jacob E. %A Grabill, Jeffrey T. %A Hart-Davidson, William %A McLeod, Michael %B Journal of Business and Technical Communication %V 25 %P 367-395 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Technical Communication Quarterly %D 2015 %T Contemporary Research Methodologies in Technical Communication %A Brian McNely, Clay Spinuzzi %A Teston, Christa %B Technical Communication Quarterly %V 24 %P 1/13/2015 %G eng %U http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10572252.2015.975958 %R 10.1080/10572252.2015.975958 %0 Book %B University of Florida Humanities Monographs %D 1972 %T The Consolatio Genre in Medieval English Literature %A Means, Michael H. %K Aristotle %K consolatio %K medieval %K new genre %B University of Florida Humanities Monographs %I University of Florida Press %C Gainesville, FL %8 1972 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Technical Communication Quarterly %D 2017 %T Crowdfunding Science: Exigencies and Strategies in an Emerging Genre of Science Communication %A Mehlenbacher, Ashley Rose %XCrowdfunding is a novel mechanism for garnering monetary support from the online public, and increasingly it is being used to fund science. This article reports a small-scale study examining science-focused crowdfunding proposals from Kickstarter.com. By exploring the rhetoric of these proposals with respect to traditional grant funding proposals in the sciences, this study aims to understand how the language of science may be imported into this popular genre.
%B Technical Communication Quarterly %V 26 %P 127 - 144 %G eng %U https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10572252.2017.1287361https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10572252.2017.1287361 %N 2 %! Technical Communication Quarterly %R 10.1080/10572252.2017.1287361 %0 Journal Article %J Cinema Journal %D 2001 %T A Cultural Approach to Television Genre Theory %A Mittell, Jason %K academics %K Altman %K audience %K evolution %K Feuer %K Foucault %K genre %K industry %K Neale %K television %K Todorov %B Cinema Journal %V 40 %P 3–24 %8 2001 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film & Television %D 2001 %T Cartoon Realism: Genre Mixing and the Cultural Life of the Simpsons %A Mittell, Jason %K genre %K parody %K television %X Focuses on how genre impacts the television program 'The Simpsons' regarding issues of cultural hierarchies, target audiences, codes of realism and genre parody. Uses of generic terms; Discussion on the discursive operation of genre surrounding the cultural life of 'The Simpsons.' %B Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film & Television %P 15–30 %8 2001 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Information Processing and Management %D 2008 %T Classifying Web Genres in Context: A Case Study Documenting the Web Genres Used by a Software Engineer %A Montesi, Michela %A Navarrete, Trilce %K access %K genre %K information science %K internet %K professional %K purpose %K user %K web %X This case study analyzes the Internet-based resources that a software engineer uses in his daily work. Methodologically,we studied the web browser history of the participant, classifying all the web pages he had seen over a period of 12 days into web genres. We interviewed him before and after the analysis of the web browser history. In the first interview, he spoke about his general information behavior; in the second, he commented on each web genre, explaining why and how he used them. As a result, three approaches allow us to describe the set of 23 web genres obtained: (a) the purposes they serve for the participant; (b) the role they play in the various work and search phases; (c) and the way they are used in combination with each other. Further observations concern the way the participant assesses quality of web-based resources, and his information behavior as a software engineer. %B Information Processing and Management %V 44 %P 1410–1430 %8 2008 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Technical Writing and Communication %D 1989 %T Computer-Based Writing and Communication: Some Implications for Technical Communication Activities %A Olsen, Leslie A. %B Journal of Technical Writing and Communication %V 19 %P 97-118 %G eng %R 10.2190/682K-DP1T-X3QG-BYH9 %0 Journal Article %J Quarterly Journal of Speech %D 1979 %T Causation and Creativity in Rhetorical Situations: Distinctions and Implications %A Patton, John H. %K genre %K situation %B Quarterly Journal of Speech %V 65 %P 36–55 %8 1979 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J English Literary Renaissance %D 2008 %T 'Comedies for Commodities': Genre and Early Modern Dramatic Epistles %A Pendergast, John %K 1500-1699 %K comic drama %K commodification %K drama %K English literature %K genre %K genre conventions %K patronage %K relationship to epistle %B English Literary Renaissance %V 38 %P 483-505 %8 2008 %@ 0013-83121475-6757 (electronic) %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Communicatio %D 2007 %T A Critical-Historical Genre Analysis of Reality Television %A Penzhorn, Heidi %A Pitout, Magriet %K audience %K genre %K hybrid %K mass media %K media %K mix %K panopticon %K reality television %K voyeurism %X The objective of this article is to investigate the criticism that reality television defies precise definitionbecause it shares generic conventions with genres such as game shows, talent shows, talk shows and documentaries. We started this investigation by using the historical genre approach to determine the historical roots of reality television. The historical approach also enabled us to identify four genre conventions associated with reality television, that is, the focus on ordinary people, voyeurism, audience participation, and the attempt to simulate real life. These characteristics furthermore explain the popularity of this genre with the viewing audience. To make provision for one genre `borrowing' from another, we suggested the use of the hybrid mix (or generic mix) model which enables researchers to identify the content (e.g. the narrative) of reality programmes as well as its unique, formalistic characteristics. %B Communicatio %V 33 %P 62–76 %8 2007 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Psychology of Music %D 2007 %T The content and validity of music-genre stereotypes among college students %A Rentfrow, Peter J. %A Gosling, Samuel D. %XThe present research examined the content and validity of stereotypes about fans of 14 different music genres (e.g. country, rap, rock). In particular, we focused on stereotypes concerning fans’ personalities (e.g. extraversion, emotional stability), personal qualities (e.g. political beliefs, athleticism), values (e.g. for peace, for wisdom), and alcohol and drug preferences (e.g. wine, hallucinogens). Previous research has shown that music is linked to a variety of psychological characteristics, that music is used to convey information about oneself to observers, and that observers can infer personality on the basis of music preferences. Guided by such research, we predicted and found that individuals have robust and clearly defined stereotypes about the fans of various music genres (Study 1), and that many of these music-genre stereotypes possess a kernel of truth (Study 2). Discussion focuses on the potential role of music-genre stereotypes in self-expression and impression formation.
%B Psychology of Music %I University of Chicago Press %C Chicago %V 35 %P 306-326 %8 04/2014 %G eng %U http://pom.sagepub.com/content/35/2/306.short %N 2 %& 306 %R 10.1177/0305735607070382 %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Interdisciplinary History %D 2006 %T Commentary: Why Opera? The Politics of an Emerging Genre %A Romano, Dennis %K emerging %K genre %K new %K opera %K politics %K Venice %B Journal of Interdisciplinary History %V 36 %P 401–409 %8 2006 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Poetics %D 1987 %T Cognition, Media Use, Genres: Socio-Psychological Aspects of Media and Genres; TV and TV-Genres in the Federal Republic of Germany %A Rusch, Gebhard %K cognition %K genre %K TV %X The following article employs a concept of genre which is strictly orientated towards the cognitive dimensions of human action and interaction. As far as tv is concerned, this orientation focuses our attention (1) on the (psychological) processes of concept formation (e.g. genre-concepts like ‘detective show’, ‘tv news’, ‘situation comedy’, etc.), on the establishment of appropriate schemata, frames and the like; (2) on the structure of such media-specific genre-concepts, and (3) on the uses made of those concepts in the domain of production (e.g. by producers, directors, actors etc.) on the one hand and in the domain of reception (e.g. by tv-viewers) on the other hand. Accordingly, the article presents a brief introduction to some of the main elements of a theory of cognition, of social interaction and communication of cognitive systems. This theoretical basis will then be employed in the construction of models of media systems, media use and genre schemata. The uses of genre-concepts will be analyzed with respect to production (public tv-broadcasting-corporations), mediation (e.g. tv guides and announcements and reception (tv viewers' genre-concepts). %B Poetics %V 16 %P 431–469 %8 1987 %G eng %0 Conference Paper %B 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences %D 2007 %T Characterizing Genres of Web Pages: Genre Hybridism and Individualization %A Santini, Marina %K genre %K hybrid %K information science %B 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences %P 71–81 %8 2007 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Technical Communication Quarterly %D 2004 %T The CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication: A Retrospective Analysis %A Selber, Stuart A. %B Technical Communication Quarterly %V 13 %P 139-155 %G eng %U http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15427625tcq1302_2 %R 10.1207/s15427625tcq1302_2 %0 Generic %D 2007 %T A Companion to Digital Literary Studies %A Siemens, Ray %A Schreibman, Susan %K Drucker %K genre %K hypertet %K interactive fiction %K new media %K screen %K text %I Blackwell %C Malden, MA %8 2007 %G eng %U http://digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS/ %0 Book Section %B Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity Perspectives %D 2003 %T Compound Mediation in Software Development: Using Genre Ecologies to Study Textual Artifacts %A Spinuzzi, Clay %E Bazerman, Charles %E Russell, David %K activity theory %K ecology %K genre %K mediation %K text %B Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity Perspectives %I The WAC Clearinghouse and Mind, Culture, and Activity %C Fort Collins, CO %P 97–124 %8 2003 %G eng %U http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/index.cfm %0 Journal Article %J Written Communication %D 2006 %T Coherent Fragments: The Problem of Mobility and Genred Information %A Swarts, Jason %K genre %K medical writing %K mobile %K PDA %K place %K technology %X Genres embody typified discursive activity that is situated in an ecology oftexts, people, and tools. Within these settings, genres help writers compose recognizable information artifacts. Increasingly, however, many professions are becoming mobile, and mobile technologies (e.g., personal digital assistants [PDAs]) are creating problems of translation as writers attempt to make genres work across contexts. Mobile devices uproot genres from their native contexts, undercutting their ability to mediate discursive activity. The semantically reduced design of PDA-accessible information magnifies these problems by obscuring, but not erasing, genre characteristics that tie information to its native context. Readers must assume the burden of composing meaningful information artifacts,work otherwise offloaded to genres. The author explores the nature of this composition burden in a case study of veterinary students. He finds that context and the degree of mobility both influence student perception of this composition burden. %B Written Communication %V 23 %P 173–201 %8 2006 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Written Communication %D 2006 %T Coherent Fragments: The Problem of Mobility and Genred Information %A Swarts, Jason %B Written Communication %V 23 %P 173–201 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Written Communication %D 2010 %T Constitutive rhetoric as an aspect of audience design: The public texts of Canadian suffragists %A Thieme, Katja %K addressee %K Erving Goffman %K Herbert C. Clark %K interpellation %K noun phrases %K rhetorical situation %K women’s rights %XThis article offers a way of using the theory of audience design—how speakers position different audience groups as main addressees, overhearers, or bystanders—for written discourse. It focuses on main addressees, that is, those audience members who are expected to participate in and respond to a speaker’s utterances. The text samples are articles, letters, and editorials on women’s suffrage that were published between 1909 and 1912 in Canadian periodicals. In particular, the author analyzes noun phrases with which suffrageskeptical women are addressed, relying on the theory of constitutive rhetoric to highlight the interpellative force with which the audience design of this public political debate operates.
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