“the view of genre that simply makes it a collection of features obscures how these features are flexible in any instance or even how the general understanding of the genre can change over time, as people orient to evolving patterns.”
genre is flexible, you can be confident in your writing because of this, there is no set guidelines
typified characteristic, typical utterance any act of language — written or spoken recurrent happens again and again
really important, the "categories" of genre
The term genre means “kind, sort, or style” and is often applied to kinds of art and media, for instance, sorts of novels, films, television shows, and so on. In writing studies, we find all sorts of written genres, not just ones that you might classify as artistic (or creative).
definition of genre and where it's applied
The names of the things you write—e-mails, messages, record or application forms, order forms, lab reports, field observations, applications, narratives, text messages, and so on—can be thought of as individual compositions, large or small, that happen incidentally in the course of other activity. But another way to think of these compositions is as predictable and recurring kinds of communication—in a word, genres.
we write way more than we think we do, it is everywhere in our lives