Post 17: Explain blogging as a genre of writing. Describe the features of this genre using Dirk's article

  In Kerry Dirk’s essay, “Navigating Genres”, the author uses several categories of genres (and her own essay) to provide examples to her readers about how genres can be understood and why they are so important. He uses collegiate words to maintain an air of intellectual superiority. In doing so Dirk provides more than just textbook examples on the genre. She provides the readers with insight into how she as a writer drew from other pieces of literature in the same genre to create the essay she wrote to us.

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