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Carolyn R. Miller is SAS Institute Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication, Emerita, at North Carolina State University. She has published on rhetorical genres, rhetorical agency, and rhetoric of science and technology, and is co-editor of Emerging Genres in New Media Environments (2017). She has served as the president of the Rhetoric Society of America and editor of Rhetoric Society Quarterly. She is a fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America and of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.
Amy J. Devitt is a writer, teacher, and scholar, and Professor of English and Chancellors Club Teaching Professor at the University of Kansas. Her books include Writing Genres (2004), Standardizing Written English: Diffusion in the Case of Scotland 1520–1659 (1989), and the co-authored textbook Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres (2004). Her most oft-cited articles include "Intertextuality in Tax Accounting: Generic, Referential, and Functional," and "Generalizing about Genre: New Conceptions of an Old Concept." More at https://www.amydevitt.com.
<p>"In one volume we find RGS’s necessary historical contexts, the early innovations, and the pioneering applications to critique and pedagogy. With judicious curation and lucid framing, Miller and Devitt have given the field what it has long needed: ready access to the deep clear spring of its foundational texts – endlessly renewing, endlessly instructive."</p><p>–Dylan B. Dryer, <em>University of Maine, USA</em></p><p>“Miller and Devitt’s indispensable new collection compiles essential reading for anyone interested in genre as a way to understand written communication. With its historical perspective and foundational texts, this book offers a rich resource for newcomers and experts alike.”</p><p>–Christine Tardy, <em>University of Arizona, USA</em></p><p>"With its compilation of foundational historical and theoretical perspectives on genre and inclusion of richly varied, groundbreaking studies reconceptualizing genre, this book is an invaluable resource for scholars. Key features include critical attention to genre ideologies and innovative genre pedagogies. The book is truly a landmark, identifying and locating essential readings on RGS."</p><p>-Mary Jo Reiff, <em>University of Kansas, USA</em></p>
<p>"In one volume we find RGS’s necessary historical contexts, the early innovations, and the pioneering applications to critique and pedagogy. With judicious curation and lucid framing, Miller and Devitt have given the field what it has long needed: ready access to the deep clear spring of its foundational texts – endlessly renewing, endlessly instructive."</p><p>–Dylan B. Dryer, <em>University of Maine, USA</em></p><p>“Miller and Devitt’s indispensable new collection compiles essential reading for anyone interested in genre as a way to understand written communication. With its historical perspective and foundational texts, this book offers a rich resource for newcomers and experts alike.”</p><p>–Christine Tardy, <em>University of Arizona, USA</em></p><p>"With its compilation of foundational historical and theoretical perspectives on genre and inclusion of richly varied, groundbreaking studies reconceptualizing genre, this book is an invaluable resource for scholars. Key features include critical attention to genre ideologies and innovative genre pedagogies. The book is truly a landmark, identifying and locating essential readings on RGS."</p><p>-Mary Jo Reiff, <em>University of Kansas, USA</em></p>
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Carolyn R. Miller is SAS Institute Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication, Emerita, at North Carolina State University. She has published on rhetorical genres, rhetorical agency, and rhetoric of science and technology, and is co-editor of Emerging Genres in New Media Environments (2017). She has served as the president of the Rhetoric Society of America and editor of Rhetoric Society Quarterly. She is a fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America and of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.
Amy J. Devitt is a writer, teacher, and scholar, and Professor of English and Chancellors Club Teaching Professor at the University of Kansas. Her books include Writing Genres (2004), Standardizing Written English: Diffusion in the Case of Scotland 1520–1659 (1989), and the co-authored textbook Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres (2004). Her most oft-cited articles include "Intertextuality in Tax Accounting: Generic, Referential, and Functional," and "Generalizing about Genre: New Conceptions of an Old Concept." More at https://www.amydevitt.com.