Chapter 1

            Before reading this chapter I never realized that genre was more than a simple organizational tool for different types of music or books. Too say that I understood the true depth of the term “genre” would be a complete lie. This chapter showed me that genre covers more than just a certain type of music; it showed me that each writer writes in their own genre and their genre all depends on the rhetorical situation they are put in. The adjustments to their style, understanding who they are writing for, figuring out how they want to appeal to their audience, as well as other things, makes each individual’s writing both their own genre and unique amongst the other pieces of the same type. Chapter one of the Bedford Book of Genres really helped me understand that genre is a flexible term and does not mean each piece within a designated genre will be the same or even similar.