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Websters New World College Dictionary Definition: genre

kind, or type, as of works of literature, art, etc.
Our Target Definition (building on Websters): genre a text
type, print or nonprint, that we can expect to look similar in form
most of the time we encounter it with the realization that we also
need to make critical considerations of this text type in
relationship to purpose, audience, mode, social construction, and
intertextuality
Some of the Genres We (and other students have)
Identified
~academic,adultromance,adventure,advertisement,AfricanAmericanliterature,
agenda,album/CDcover,Animoto,annotation,announcement,application,
artwork,aubade,autobiography,ballad,ballet,bankstatement,bill,billboard,
biography,birthcertificate,blogpost,bookreport,brochure,bulletin,bumper
sticker,captions,cartoon,certificate,chart,check,childrensbooks,choreography,
classifiedad,collage,comedy,comicbook,comicstrip,commercial,contract,
cookbook,coupon,creativenonfiction,critique,crosswordpuzzle,dance,death
certificate,(de)motivationalposters,diaryentry,dialogue,digitalbillboard,digital
video/story,diploma,directions,dissertation,divorcesettlement,documentary,
dogshaming,doubleormultiplevoicepoem,drama,driverslicense,email,
editorial,elegy,essay,eulogy,fables,Facebookfeedand/orpost,familyBible
listing,fanfiction,fantasy,fax,fiction,film,flyer,folklore,gifset,glog,graffiti,
graph,graphicnovel,graphics,gravestone,greetingcards,haiku,hashtags,
historicalfiction,history,horoscope,horror,IM,infographic,instructionmanual,
instructions,interpretation,interview,invitation,jingle,journalentry,labreport,
label,legend,lessonplan,letter,licenseplate,linernotes,list,logo,lyrics,manual,
magazinearticle,magicalrealism,manga,map,marriagelicense,mashup,
medicalreport,memes,memeticimages,memo,memoir,menu,militaryID,
monologue,movie,moviecredits,movieposter,music,musicvideo,musical
notes,mystery,myth,narrative,newspaperarticle,noir,nonfiction,note(s),novel,
nutritionfacts,obituary,ode,painting,parody,passport,persuasiveessay,photo
album,photoessay,photostory,photograph,picaresque,picturebook,pictures,
play,playbill,podcast,poetry,politicalposter,postcard,poster,PowerPoint,
prescription,program,prose,radiobroadcast,receipt,recipe,records,reflection,

research,resume,review,romance,sciencefiction,scrapbook,screencast,screen
play,script(play,movie,radioshow,interview,etc.),selfhelp,serenade,sermon,
shortstory,song,sonnet,speech,streetsign,soundtrack,subtitles,survey,tshirt
design,tag,talkshowdialogue,talltales,textmessage,thankyounote,thesis,
timeline,todolist,toast,tombstone,tracklisting,tradebook,transcript,translation,
travelbrochure,tweet,video,videogame,villanelle,vlog,VoiceThread,wantad,
wantedposter,webpage/website,western,wiki,yellowpages,youngadultfiction
~keepaddingtothelist...