Journal Two: Genre

For this journal, you are writing in response to "Writing Speaks to Situation Through Recognizable Forms". I've included all the front matter from the book for you so that you have it for citation purposes; however, your actual reading assignment starts on the five page of this pdf with page 35 and ends on p 46. This section contains seven concepts related to writing and genre that are authored by different scholars in the field:

1. Writing speaks to situations through recognizable forms (Bazerman)
2. Writing represents the world, events, and feelings (Bazerman)
3. Genres are enacted by readers and writers (Hart-Davidson)
4. Writing is a way of enacting disciplinarity (Lerner)
5. All writing is multimodal (Ball and Charlton)
6. Writing is performative (Lunsford)
7. Texts get their meaning from other texts (Roozen)

After carefully reading this section, please write in response to the prompt below:

• Based on your reading of all seven concepts, how do you define "genre"? Is this definition of genre different from how you've understood genre previously?
• What are three major ideas about genre and/or writing that you can take away from your reading of this text? In other words, what three ideas seem most important for you as a writer?
• Has your understanding of "genre" and/or "writing" changed as a result of reading this text? If so, how and why? If not, why not? 
• Are there any concepts or claims in the text that you disagree with? What is it, and why? 
• Find two examples of texts that you would classify as being part of the same genre and link to them in your post. Then, provide a brief description of how you see these two texts adhering or not to the seven concepts outlined above. (e.g., I might include two links to Buzzfeed listicles and then explain how the "listicle" is a recognizable form that uses conventions like a title, gifs, captions, etc; how it represents the world/events/feelings by the language and images that are used; how it is multimodal because it uses language, image, moving image, color, layout, etc.)
• Lastly: what questions do you have about the reading? what more do you need or want to know? what confuses you?