Download or read book Genres of Digital Documents written by and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of genres the fusion of content, purpose and form of communicative actions stretches back hundreds of years to the beginnings of self-reflective human communication. Greek philosophers and orators recognized that the content of the message is not always its most important aspect; rather, the delivery, the context, and the rhetorical structure all play complementary roles in the subtle but profound act of one human being transferring information to another and thereby creating meaning from that transfer.