Journal 4

The role of genre is extremely important in creating and reading texts. Genre shapes a work of art into what the audience is expecting to ready. With certain genres you are given certain rules or guidelines to work with. It is important that the author follow said rules and guidelines for the audience. While composing we make a lot of decisions, and these rules and guidelines help us to make our decision. An author of a comedic novel would write something completely different then the author of a horror novel. If these roles would change the audience would not react well to it. Devitt writes about how genre is a bunch of smaller pieces that come together to create a larger piece. This is the parts on genre that are intertextually related. Each aspect comes together to form the overall final product. Devitt also talks about how genre is a path that leads us to our end goal. This relates back to the guidelines and rules that are needed to follow because you have to follow a certain path to get to the end. Genre impacts the circulation and distribution process because with the ever changing world of technology the genres themselves have to also change. As we progress the circulation and changing of genres is ever so important. It is also so much easier these days to distribute different forms of genres because of technology as well. A story or blog could be spread around social media faster than you could blink your eyes. This brings a whole new element into genres since there are so many new rules to follow. Audience plays a huge part in genres as well since the composer has to take their perspective into view. As a composers audience changes the purpose of their writing changes as well. By knowing the specific audience and what they want the composer knows what their guidelines and expectations are. Each audience could have a different purpose for viewing a message. Some messages could be educational while others could be entertaining, all telling the same story though. Overall genre plays one of the biggest roles on all works of art.