@article {636,
	title = {Genre Systems at Work: DSM-IV and Rhetorical Recontextualization in Psychotherapy Paperwork},
	journal = {Written Communication},
	volume = {18},
	year = {2001},
	note = {Phelps 798 paper S08},
	month = {2001},
	pages = {326{\textendash}349},
	keywords = {activity theory, genre, system},
	author = {Berkenkotter, Carol}
}
@article {926,
	title = {Rethinking Genre in School and Society: An Activity Theory Analysis},
	journal = {Written Communication},
	volume = {14},
	year = {1997},
	note = {+ j (j is missing!)+ genres-comp
+ pdf
},
	month = {1997},
	pages = {504{\textendash}554},
	abstract = {The relation between writing in formal schooling and writing in other social practicesis a central problem in writing research (e.g., critical pedagogy, writing in nonacademic
settings, cognition in variable social contexts). How do macro-level social and political
structures (forces) affect micro-level literate actions in classrooms and vice versa? To
address these questions, the author synthesizes Yrjo Engestrom{\textquoteright}s systems version of
Vygotskian cultural-historical activity theory with Charles Bazerman{\textquoteright}s theory of genre
systems. The author suggests that this synthesis extends Bakhtinian dialogic theory by
providing a broader unit of analysis than text-as-discourse, wider levels of analysis than
the dyad, and an expanded theory of dialectic. By tracing the intertextual relations among
disciplinary and educational genre systems, through the boundary of classroom genre
systems, one can construct a model of ways classroom writing is linked to writing in
wider social practices and rethink such issues as agency, task representation, and
assessment.
},
	keywords = {activity, classroom, composition, dialogue, genre, situation, system, Vygotsky, workplace},
	author = {Russell, David R.}
}
@inbook {942,
	title = {Structure and Agency in Medical Case Presentations},
	booktitle = {Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity Perspectives},
	year = {2003},
	note = {+ pdf rhet},
	month = {2003},
	pages = {62{\textendash}96},
	publisher = {The WAC Clearinghouse and Mind, Culture, and Activity},
	organization = {The WAC Clearinghouse and Mind, Culture, and Activity},
	address = {Fort Collins, CO},
	keywords = {activity theory, agency, Bourdieu, genre, Giddens, self, structure, system},
	url = {http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/index.cfm},
	author = {Schryer, Catherine F. and Lingard, Lorelei and Spafford, Marlee and Garwood, Kim},
	editor = {Bazerman, Charles and Russell, David}
}
@inbook {962,
	title = {Four Ways to Investigate Assemblages of Texts: Genre Sets, Systems, Repertoires, and Ecologies},
	booktitle = {22nd Annual International Conference on Design of Communication: The Engineering of Quality Documentation},
	year = {2004},
	month = {2004},
	pages = {110{\textendash}116},
	publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
	organization = {Association for Computing Machinery},
	address = {Memphis, TN},
	abstract = {Genre theorists agree that genres work together in assemblages.But what is the nature of these assemblages? In this paper I
describe four frameworks that have been used to describe
assemblages of genres: genre sets, genre systems, genre
repertoires, and genre ecologies. At first glance, they seem to be
interchangeable, but there are definite and sometimes quite deep
differences among them. I compare and contrast these frameworks
and suggest when each might be most useful.
},
	keywords = {ecology, genre, repertoire, set, system},
	url = {http://www.lib.ncsu.edu:2268/10.1145/1026533.1026560},
	author = {Spinuzzi, Clay}
}
@article {963,
	title = {Genre Ecologies: An Open-System Approach to Understanding and Constructing Documentation},
	journal = {ACM Journal of Computer Documentation},
	volume = {24},
	year = {2000},
	note = {+ pdf rhet+ pdf 702
},
	month = {2000},
	pages = {169{\textendash}181},
	abstract = {Arguing that current approaches to understanding and constructingcomputer documentation are based on the flawed assumption
that documentation works as a closed system, the authors present
an alternative way of thinking about the texts that make computer
technologies usable for people. Using two historical case studies,
the authors describe how a genre ecologies framework provides
new insights into the complex ways that people use texts to
make sense of computer technologies. The framework is designed
to help researchers and documentors account for contingency,
decentralization, and stability in the multiple texts the people use
while working with computers. The authors conclude by proposing
three heuristic tools to support the work of technical communicators engaged in developing documentation today: exploratory questions, genre
ecology diagrams, and organic engineering.
},
	keywords = {contingency, decentralization, documentation, ecology, genre, open system, stability, system},
	author = {Spinuzzi, Clay and Zachry, Mark}
}
@article {1014,
	title = {Genre systems: Structuring interaction through communicative norms},
	journal = {Journal of Business Communication},
	volume = {39},
	year = {2002},
	note = {+ pdf rhet},
	month = {2002},
	pages = {13{\textendash}35},
	abstract = {In this paper we demonstrate that teams may use genre systems{\textemdash}sequences of interrelated communicative actions_deliberately or habitually, to structure their collaboration.  Using data over a seven-month period from three teams{\textquoteright} use of a collaborative electronic technology, Team Room, we illustrate that genre systems are a means of structuring six dimensions of communicative interaction: purpose (why), content (what), participants (who/m), form (how), time (when), and place (where).  We suggest that researchers and users may benefit from explicitly recognizing the role genre systems can play in collaboration and from examining changes in these six dimensions accompanying changes in electronic technology.},
	keywords = {collaboration, digital media, genre, system, team, technology},
	author = {Yates, JoAnne and Orlikowski, Wanda}
}
