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Genre- cannot be defined/classifide but it can be characterized: dynamic, social, ideological, historical, situated, rhetorical, cultural

-fixed and fluid

Natural: we do all the time

forms= not natural

genres build off genres

-genre chains

-antecedent: the genre parent to a genre offspring

ex of genre chain: culinary artist, cookbook, cooking show, recipe copying by watcher, recipe used by child at wedding

rhetoric is defined by choice

-sources available