Genre Post

Did the radio essay behave like a genre in the way the essay described? The highlighted definition in the essay was “A genre is a typified utterance that appears in a recurrent situation. A genre evolves through human use and activity to be a durable and usable form for carrying out human communicative intentions in fairly stable ways.” The radio essay is its own category, like music or books or poetry or television. It holds its own set of characteristics and language that happen over and over again using different topics. 
The whole idea of genres is rather interesting, and for me, a bit overwhelming. I typically think of genre as something to keep in the scholastic setting, but the essay we read made me realize the social media writing is a genre, texting, journal writing, all of it is its own genre as well as the ones we see in class. To be able to know without thinking about it which genre to choose depending on which context you are in. It was different in this class to lean away a bit from the scholarly writing typically used in my other classes so far and lean towards the more casual writing I use in my daily life. I had to become more flexible and stop myself from wanting to write my radio essay using essay like language, but go for more casual language instead. 

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