Making Sense of Genres: Dirk "Navigating Genres" (due Tuesday)

Assignment Requirements: 

To help you learn to read critically and incorporate effective textual support, you will complete reading responses for several of the assigned readings this semester. Reading responses ask you to use direct evidence from the course readings to answer a prompting a question. This means that each reading response should include at least one quote or paraphrase from the assigned text.

Reading Responses should be uploaded as a Microsoft Word document using MLA or APA formatting (including an APA title page or MLA header) and in-text citations and a Works Cited/References page. There is no word count for these responses, but you should be thoroughly answering the question with specific evidence that is incorporated into your own writing. To do this, I recommend around 250 words, but you're welcome to write more or less if you feel like that's what you need to answer the question. 

This Week's Prompt: 

Read Kerry Dirk's "Navigating Genres" (linked here). After reading, answer the following question:

1. How would you describe what genre is in your own words?
2. What is the relationship between genre and rhetorical situation?
3. Why might knowing about the different genres that a group or community writes help you in a job, a college major, a personal endeavor, etc? 
4. What genres do you or have you typically written in?