01666nas a2200121   4500008004100000245008400041210006900125300001200194490000700206520125800213100002501471856004801496       2011                        eng d00aThe Author-Function, The Genre Function, and The Rhetoric of Scholarly Webtexts0 aAuthorFunction The Genre Function and The Rhetoric of Scholarly   a145-1590 v283 a<p>In this article, I compare Michel Foucault&#39;s (1994) author-function and Anis Bawarshi&#39;s (2000) genre function as explanations for the use, categorization, and value of scholarly webtexts. I focus much of my analysis on Anne Frances Wysocki&#39;s (2002) &ldquo;A Bookling Monument&rdquo; because it is explicitly designed to destabilize our reading practices. I also situate Wysocki&#39;s webtext along a spectrum with Charles Lowe&#39;s (2004) &ldquo;Copyright, Access, and Digital Texts&rdquo; and Collin Gifford Brooke&#39;s (2002) &ldquo;Perspective: Notes Toward the Remediation of Style.&rdquo; In using the author-function and the genre function as lenses on these pieces, I aim to articulate multiple possible modes of being for scholarly webtexts and their users. In the process, I illustrate the ways these concepts speak to the status and social function of authorial ownership and originality; multimodal complexity; and formal reflexivity. Ultimately, I argue that bringing traditional concepts like authorship and genre to bear on scholarly webtexts not only reveals the values of the Computers and Writing community but also presents a unique opportunity to continue testing the uses and limits of our rhetorical theories.</p>
1 aBasgier, Christopher  uhttps://genreacrossborders.org/ja/node/1147