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genre ecology: a standalone construct

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genreecology1 CONSTRUCTGenre ecologySPINUZZI · TECHNICAL

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Technical communication

the open, changing set of interconnected genres, official and unofficial, that people use together to mediate an activity such as using software.

In technical communication, genre ecology refers to the open, changing set of interconnected genres, official and unofficial, that people use together to mediate an activity such as using software. This meaning comes from Spinuzzi (2000) in ACM Journal of Computer Documentation.[1]

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genre3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

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  1. Spinuzzi, C., & Zachry, M. (2000). Genre ecologies: an open-system approach to understanding and constructing documentation. ACM Journal of Computer Documentation, 24(3), 169-181. https://doi.org/10.1145/344599.344646

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