"Reproducibles, rubrics, and everything you need": Genre theory today

Abstract

<jats:p>If you had typed <jats:italic>genre</jats:italic> into <jats:italic>amazon.com's</jats:italic> search engine on a certain day in March 2007, you would have come up with an initial ten listings that included two gay men's magazines <jats:italic>(Genre</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Instinct Magazine),</jats:italic> one introductory theoretical text (my own <jats:italic>Genre),</jats:italic> a compact disc by a group called D-Genre, a composition textbook (Tom Romano's <jats:italic>Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing Multigenre Papers),</jats:italic> three resource kits for children (Carson-Dellosa's <jats:italic>Literary Genres,</jats:italic> Susan Ludwig's <jats:italic>Twenty-Four Ready-to-Go Genre Book Reports: Engaging Activities with Reproducibles, Rubrics, and Everything You Need to Help Students Get the Most Out of Their Independent Reading,</jats:italic> and a bulletin-board set entitled <jats:italic>BB Set Genres of Lit),</jats:italic> and, finally, two school textbooks (Tara McCarthy's <jats:italic>Teaching Genre (Grades 4–8)</jats:italic> and Heather Lattimer's <jats:italic>Thinking through Genre: Units of Study in Reading and Writing Workshops 4–12).</jats:italic></jats:p>