Abstract: The author first discusses the evolution of two major concepts in Genre Analysis, "genre", particularly as it relates to purpose and text prototypicality, and "task", particularly as it relates to context. Then, she draws from evolving understandings of these concepts, the work of Swales and Feak, 2012a, Swales and Feak, 2012b and of Rhetorical Genre Studies scholars (Bawarshi and Reiff, 2010, Prior, 2001), to describe pre-writing tasks completed by transitional bilingual (Spanish/English) secondary school students as they prepared responses to prompts for a college application essay, The Personal Statement, a challenging, seemingly anomalous, genre.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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