Summary:
In the article "Materiality and Genre in the Study of Discourse Communities," DeVitt, Bawarshi, and Reiff attempt to show how genre is related to discourse communities, and they argue that by learning genres one can fully learn how to understand a discourse community.
Synthesis: A couple articles that relate to this article would be Gee and Swales because they deal with discourse communities. But Gee and Swales state there definitions of what a discourse community is, and DeVitt, Bawarshi, and Reiff define it by genre.
Personal Response: I thought this article was very informational and I learned something from it. It helped learn more about what genre is in a discourse community because I didn't know what it was exactly. It wasn't as bad as some of the other readings we have done.
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