Front Cover -- Genre Theory in Information Studies -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editorial Advisory Board -- Introduction -- References -- Chapter 1 What Genre Theory Does -- 1.1 The Social Study of Texts: The Precursors -- 1.2 Genre as Social Action -- 1.3 The Achievements of Genre Theory -- References -- Chapter 2 Re-Describing Knowledge Organization - A Genre and Activity-Based View -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Knowledge Organization Situation - A Description -- 2.3 Re-Describing Knowledge Organization: A Proposal for a New Understanding -- 2.4 Knowledge Organization - A Genre and Activity-Based View -- 2.4.1 Knowledge Organization as Social Action -- 2.4.2 Knowledge Organization and Typification -- 2.4.3 Genre, Users and Knowledge Organization -- 2.4.4 Genre, Activity and Knowledge Organization -- 2.5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3 Genres without Writers: Information Systems and Distributed Authorship -- 3.1 Genre Innovation as the Product of Purposeful Writer Intervention: Spinuzzi's "Secret Sauce" -- 3.2 Genre Regulation in Cultural Heritage Metadata: The Role of Standards -- 3.3 Writerless Genre Change through Aggregation: The Case of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- 3.4 Writerless Genre Change through Access Mechanism: Effects of Keyword Search -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Genre and Typified Activities in Informing and Personal Information Management -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Literature Review -- 4.3 Studies and Methods -- 4.4 Findings: Setting 1. Informed Choice in Midwifery Care -- 4.4.1 Setting -- 4.4.2 The Informed Choice Discussion as an Oral Genre -- 4.4.3 The Informed Choice Genre Set -- 4.4.4 The Informed Choice Genre system -- 4.5 Findings: Setting 2. Keeping Track in the Household -- 4.5.1 Setting -- 4.5.2 Calendars as Genres in Course Planning.

4.5.3 The Course Planning Genre Set -- 4.5.4 The Course Planning Genre System -- 4.6 Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 5 The Role of Calendars in Constructing a Community of Historical Workers in the Public Records Office of Great Britain ca. 1850s-1950s -- 5.1 Setting the Scene: Background to the Large-Scale Publication of Calendars in the PRO -- 5.2 The PRO Calendars -- 5.3 The Ideologies of the PRO Calendars -- 5.4 The Role of Calendars in Constructing a Community of Historical Workers -- 5.5 The Decline of the PRO Calendars -- 5.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 Organizational Records as Genres: An Analysis of the "Documentary Reality" of Organizations from the Perspectives of Diplomatics, Records Management, and Rhetorical Genre Studies -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Nature of Records -- 6.3 The Documentary Reality of Diplomatics and Records Management -- 6.4 Recordkeeping from a Genre Perspective -- 6.5 The Ideology of Records -- 6.6 Records between Stability and Change -- 6.7 Record Interactions: Abstract vs. Situated Approaches -- 6.8 Records as Forms of Life - and a Methodological Note -- 6.9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 Genres of War: Informing a City -- 7.1 A Few Words on Genre Theory and Information History -- 7.2 The City of Copenhagen, 1800-1815 -- 7.3 From City to Fortress: Information-of-War -- 7.4 Sitting Out a Siege: Vigilant and Alerted -- 7.5 Writing up a Defeat and Listing up a Siege -- 7.6 Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Material from the Danish State Archives (DG-001. L.), (DC-013 and DG-001) -- Material from the Royal Library in Copenhagen -- Chapter 8 Utterance and Function in Genre Studies: A Literary Perspective -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Final Summary: Genre Theory in Information Studies -- References -- Index.