Using Genre Pedagogy in the Library Classroom

Genre pedagogies, now a common teaching method used within the composition classroom, are a way of using RGT to raise awareness of the new rhetorical situations within which students will soon find themselves. At their best, genre pedagogies may even assist students in learning to modify genres for their own benefit.

In 2014, RGT scholar Amy Devitt^[1] described three main approaches to genre pedagogy: (1) teaching particular genres, (2) teaching genre awareness, and (3) teaching genre critique. In the following sub-sections, each approach will be described and connected with library instruction.