Web Resources

A collection of genre resources from around the web. For published works, please see the Bibliography. To enrich this collection, click "add web resource."

Documents

"Researching Transfer of Writing Across Situation, Time, Medium, and Genre" by Mary Jo Reiff, University of Tennessee, and Anis Bawarshi, University of Washington [DOC].

 

Online presentations

"#include Genre" by Jeremy Douglass, University of California-San Diego, a presentation at the 2008 SoftWhere conference. Also available at the conference video repository.

"Accessing Academic Discourse: The Influence of First-Year Composition Students' Prior Genre Knowledge" by Mary Jo Reiff, University of Tennessee, and Anis Bawarshi, University of Washington [PPT].

"Genre and Generic Labor" by Clay Spinuzzi, University of Texas-Austin (Slideshare). Presentation slides from Writing Research Across Borders conference, 2011.

"Webometrics 1.0: From AltaVista to Small Worlds to Genre Drift" by Lennart Bjornborne, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen (Slideshare), 2008.

 

References & resources

CompPile Glossary, search for "genre." CompPile is "an inventory of publications in writing studies, including post-secondary composition, rhetoric, technical writing, ESL, and discourse analysis."

"An Introduction to Genre Theory," by Daniel Chandler, Aberystwyth University (web), 1997 (with updates). Chandler is a visual semiotician in the Department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies.

 

Social media

Facebook groups

Academia.edu genre-related research interests

Videos and animations

"Derrida on Genre," by Anthony Metivier, examining Derrida's "Law of Genre" and how it applies to Film Studies. 

"Gêneros Textuais," a 12-part video series featuring a conversation with Carolyn R. Miller and Charles Bazerman, produced by the Núcleo de Investigação sobre Gêneros Textuais at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, 2011 (YouTube). Discussion in English; available with subtitles in French, Portuguese, and Spanish. 

 "Genre" by Don Hertzfeldt, 1996. It has a Wikipedia entry and a Facebook page.

What is Genre? by Brent James & Heather Wozniak, 2006 (web). From a class project at UCLA: "This project seeks to perform text in both traditional literary genres and neo-genres such as software. How does the meaning—or reception—of the text change when it travels? And, given such changes, how much power does genre wield over perception and meaning?"

Genre 2012 video recordings of invited presentations.

 

Web projects

Devil or the Dictionary: Genre Theory Adventures, a blog of genre theory annotations by Renea Frey. 

Genre of Web Documents, an NSF-funded project examining metadata in web documents to improve access to information on the web. 

Genres on the Web, a web project by Marina Santini on advanced text analytics and genre. 

Web Genre Wiki, a crowd-sourced wiki on automatic web genre identification.