What is Writing in the 21st Century?
Genre
gen·re
ˈZHänrə/
noun
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a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
Genre means a lot of different things to different people. This could be taken in context of classification of music, books, etc. In class we discuss it as the context of oral, written, and multimodal texts and how they function in society, but it is more commonly known in movie genres and book categories. Much like most of the other key concepts, genre works with a select few of the concepts such as circulation and field. These three coincide allowing people in a field that enjoy or categorize themselves into a specific genre to talk and circulate common information.
"Depending upon their types, different genres have different roles. For example, fiction and dramatic genres help students and writers learn and improve their communication skills. A poetic genre, on the other hand, enhances imaginative and emotional power of the readers. Non-fictional texts and essays help readers develop analytical and persuasive capabilities. However, the major function of genre is to establish a code of behavior between the writers and audience, and keep the readers informed about the topics discussed or the themes presented."
Genre relates to our every day, modernized writing in the 21st century giving each form of writing a category as well as having different genres or categories within the text.