Four ways to investigate assemblages of texts: Genre sets, systems, repertoires, and ecologies

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Design of Communication - The Engineering of Quality Documentation

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 110-116

  Spinuzzi, Clay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Genre ecologies; Genre repertoires; Genre sets; Genre systems

Indexed keywords

GENRE ECOLOGIES; GENRE REPERTOIRES; GENRE SETS; GENRE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LIBRARIES; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROGRAM ASSEMBLERS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 13344293633     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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