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 Nizarsouth
 
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							| What īs the difference? 
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							| Hi again dear colleagues. can you help me please? I īd like to know the difference between genre and type of texts. When there īs a question about the type of text or the genre of the text, how or what  should the answer be? thank you so much for your help. |  10 Mar 2011      
					
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 niacouto
 
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							| Hi Nizarsouth, 
 Have a look here:
 
 http://llt.msu.edu/vol5num3/pdf/lee.pdf
 I think this may help you.
  
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 szamoca
 
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							| Hi 
 The genre refers to the literary genre such as novel, short story, drama etc
 Type refers to formal and informal.
 
 I hope this can give a clue.
 
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 ozlem.yagiz
 
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							| As far as I know, text types are like writing types such as descriptive, narrative but genre is used as a term for the category such as literature, music and so forth. |  10 Mar 2011     
					
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 lalles
 
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							| Dear colleague, A text type is to say whether the text is narrative, descriptive, argumentative, descriptive or expository. Note that all texts are somehow descriptive: that īs why we qualify texts as narrative descriptive. Talking about text genre is defining a written text as a pamphlet, an obituary, a history text, or is it a biographical one. |  10 Mar 2011     
					
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