TY - BOOK ID - 12131934 TI - Genre and the invention of the writer : reconsidering the place of invention in composition PY - 2003 SN - 0874215544 9786613267009 1283267004 0874214769 9780874214765 6613267007 9780874215540 9781283267007 PB - Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, DB - UniCat KW - #KVHA:Literaire genres KW - English language KW - Invention (Rhetoric) KW - Literary form. KW - Rhetoric KW - Study and teaching. KW - Composition and exercises KW - Form, Literary KW - Forms, Literary KW - Forms of literature KW - Genre (Literature) KW - Genre, Literary KW - Genres, Literary KW - Genres of literature KW - Literary forms KW - Literary genetics KW - Literary genres KW - Literary types (Genres) KW - Literature KW - Literary form KW - Germanic languages KW - Composition and exercises&delete& KW - Study and teaching KW - Rhetoric&delete& UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12131934 AB - In a focused and compelling discussion, Anis Bawarshi looks to genre theory for what it can contribute to a refined understanding of invention. In describing what he calls ""the genre function,"" he explores what is at stake for the study and teaching of writing to imagine invention as a way that writers locate themselves, via genres, within various positions and activities. He argues, in fact, that invention is a process in which writers are acted upon by genres as much as they act themselves. Such an approach naturally requires the composition scholar to re-place invention from the writ ER -