Summary
In the article "Materiality and Genre in the Study of Discourse Communities" by Amy Devitt, Anis Bawarshi, and Mary Jo Reiff the author's argue that genre is a key element is understanding discourse communities. Without genre, discourse communities would be unstructured, causing their content to be less specific and less useful.
Synthesis
This article relates to the articles by Swales, Porter, and Gee because they are all about discourse communities. What this article does is it takes one of Swales' six characteristics of discourse communities, genre, and goes into detail about it and its effects on discourse community.
Review
This article was alright, it was not too difficult to understand and it really explained its points, especially that many forms are written by specialists in a discourse community for nonspecialists in that discourse community.
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