Högskolan i Skövde

Research on writing makes use of a system of concepts, whose purpose it is to describe various forms of text production. Within this field are primarily found concepts as genre but also text type, discourse type and text; characteristic for the use of these concept is that they are highly renowned for their vague or even non-existing definitions of the conceptual content. In a critical survey of the field these central concepts are delimited and defined. Moreover, the use of genre within traditional and digital media is studied. Traditional genres of high prestige, marked by discursive discourse types, normally have a similar structure in digital and in traditional print media. The screen-based text use of the young, however, is characterized by newly developed, loose, colloquial, and highly social communicative genres, which will not likely facilitate promoting the school objectives meant to further discursive thinking and writing.