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  1. Aug 2020
    1. opportunities to decide upon the genres you’ll use to write in the world,

      It's kind of cool to think about how you can create your own genre when writing.

    2. When a writer decides or intuits that a particular genre is called for by the situation, he or she takes up the genre and uses it to frame a written response to the situation.

      The situation seems to be arguably the greatest part in making a genre

    3. Genres take their shape in recurrent situations because the communications that occur in recurrent situations tend to be remarkably similar.

      Genres seem to have many layers even though we don't really think about that.

    4. A genre is a typified utterance that appears in a recurrent situation. A genre evolves through human use and activity to be a durable and usable form for carrying out human communicative intentions in fairly stable ways.

      I never thought a genre would have such a specific definition

    5. Rather, it’s a situation in which the memorandum or the lab report typically recurs, and it’s also the fact that such

      I never think about this I just think of genre as stuff like fiction, nonfiction, comedy, adventure, etc.