Written Communication Oct 2003

The Production of Information for Genred Activity Spaces

Charles Bazerman ; Joseph Little ; Teri Chavkin University of California, Santa Barbara

Abstract

Genres, although aligning people to joint activity and joint attention, shape the substantive material or information represented within the bounded space of the text. Each genre creates a space that prompts the production of particular kinds of information to populate that space. The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 that mandated the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was invented out of a perceived social need for greater information about the effects of human activity on the environment. The EIS has since spawned a constellation of related genres, has created a large informational market to fulfill the requirements of these genres, and has led to a proliferation of information. The set of relations among genre, information, and activity found in this one sphere of environmental information are suggestive of how information is produced and used in generic forms.

Journal
Written Communication
Published
2003-10-01
DOI
10.1177/0741088303260375
Open Access
Closed
Topics
multilingual writers

Citation Context

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