Definitions of Genre
Pare and Smart (1994, p. 147)
ga set of texts, the composing process involved in creating these texts, the reading practices used to interpret them, and the social rules performed by writers and readersh
Miller (1994, p. 37)
g [a] conventional category of discourse based in large scale typification of rhetorical action: as action it acquires meaning from situation and from the social context in which that situation aroseh