Rhetorical Community: The Cultural Basis of Genre
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~crmiller/Publications/MillerT&F94.pdf
  peer-reviewed

Miller, Carolyn R.
North Carolina State University
1994

Abstract:

Our understanding of genre as social action afflicts the typical first-year college writing program in the United States. It turns what should be a practical art of achieving social ends into a productive art of making texts that fit certain formal requirements.