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The word “genre” was rarely used with respect to literacy, at least in the sense of composition theory and pedagogy, until the late 1980’s. “Genre,” as a term, was reserved largely for literary texts, and was understood to refer to “text-types” — categories of texts marked by linguistic and formal similarities.
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Freedman, A., Richardson, P. (1997). Literacy and Genre. In: Van Lier, L., Corson, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4533-6_14
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