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Date Posted: 16:59:41 10/01/09 Thu
Author: Maria de Lourdes ( Lourdinha )
Subject: Genre in DA

Dear Professor and Mates,

These are my considerations about Genre in DA:
Discourses are the product of social, historical and institutional formations, and meanings are produced by these institutionalised discourse. Discourses are power relations.
A genre represents a set of moves or conventions that are familiar to the professional or academic community that share a communicative purpose, and which incorporates a language (discourse) that is defined in terms of what people do with it.
Genres both shape and are shaped by the actions and sense-making process of community members.
Genre analysis has traditionally been viewed as a textual investigation, although more compreensive analyses also use other techniques including ethnographic techniques, cognitive procedures, computational analysis and critical awareness.
In Time for Meaning(1995), Borner explains the role of genre in literacy as follows:
Every piece of writing, every text we read, comes to us both as a text - the piece it is - and as a kind of text -an instance of genre. And what kind of thing it is put some limits as to what we expect to find there. Genre oftoverlooked cueing system in reading, constrains our prediction, and lays down a track for our reading.
The teacher must give to students some models of authentic literary analysis.
It's essential to work with genre in a contextualized way. Teaching genre in a deductive way is really more productive. When the teacher leads the students to discover caracteristics of specific genres by themselves their learning is more effective.
It's really very good when the teacher can work more closely with students and can appreciate their enthusiasm for work and their increased engagement in class. It is fulfilling and rewarding.

My best regards,

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