Rhetorical Genre Theory (RGT)

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Paré's(2014) article introduces rhetorical genre theory (RGT). RGT tells researchers how to do qualitative research, how to write correctly in different rhetorical situations, and how to deal with the relationship with writers and readers. By listing and discussing several definitions of the genre, the author shows the main effects of it like to create knowledge essential to the community's aims (Paré, 2014, A-86). The discourse community, which is closely linked to the agency, is also described as an important feature (Paré, 2014, A-86), so I coded a part of my data which focuses on the interaction between participates and analyzed the pronouns using RGT. When it comes to discourse, another important feature is to analyze it. Discourse analysis

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