Title: Writing to Learn: Constructing the Concept of Genre in a Writing Workshop
Abstract: For those working on writing, genre can be a suitable framework for stressing the complex web of relationships between the reader in a personal, idiosyncratic role and the socio-cultural conventions, which involve both text and reader. The concept of genre — with all its wide and heterogeneous background — may prove to be fertile when working on reading and writing with different learning populations, in order to discuss and understand literary, linguistic and cultural topics as integral forces. In this chapter, I would like to relate to some theoretical ideas about reading and writing and their influence on the organization of a writing workshop. I will emphasize the idea of genre as a “framework” for meaning construction and simultaneously as an analytical tool. I shall focus my discussion on writing within a generic framework as a way of clarifying the reader’s role and deepening his/her awareness of the genre’s constraints and its role in enabling personal innovation.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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