A genre is more than simply a tool for organizing your information. It also gives you a sense of the appropriate content, style, and design of a document. Here are a few Websites that discuss how to use genres in technical communication.

• Genres of Writing
  Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
  
  
• Writing for Specific Fields
  University of North Carolina Writing Center
  
  
• Genre Ecologies: an open-system approach to understanding and constructing documentation
  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Portal
  
  
• Genre and Identity
  EServer TC Library
  
  
• How Genre Choices Affect Learning in a Digital Environment
  Utah State University Interactive Media Research Labs
  
  

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