RR #16 Devitt
Summary
With
“Materiality and Genre in the Study of Discourse Communities” Amy J. Devitt,
Anis Bawarshi and Mary Jo Reiff explain and examine genre analysis and the ways
it can help students trying to comprehend discourse communities. Genre analysis
allows the examiner to not only better comprehend the specific discourse
community he or she is observing, but also the luxury of being very familiar
with whatever genre the discourse community is based in, therefore eliminating
a lot of starting and stopping. “Such analysis,” Devitt argues, “often reveals
the conflicts between communities that use a genre, conflicts often invisible
to analysis that looks at discourse in terms of its communities alone.”
Synthesis
Obviously,
this article shares many similarities to the past two readings we’ve written
about for class. They all revolve around the concept of the discourse
community. This one gives you a little insight on how to observe a discourse
community more concisely. Genre analysis allows the examiner to observe and
research his discourse community with an underlying sense of understanding.
Personal Response
This wasn’t
awful. It was alright. It’s particularly alright right now because we’re about
to begin researching specific genre communities, so this along with the past
two readings will be very helpful. However, interesting only goes so far, and I
don’t intend for this to be a cop out, but more and more, the paragraph
requirement for these personal responses grows increasingly tedious. I like the
idea of familiarizing yourself with your subject matter, and tips on how to do
that, but I don’t know. I’m not sure.
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