What is Genre ???

After thinks for a long time, Finally I decided to make the first posts about the manner of text, especially about the GENRE. Because in my opinion, the most important acquisition in a study of language is to understand the context, and genre can answer. I still remember with a review of my study in the course Introduction to language that's more focused toward the manner of text or genre. There is a definition:

Definition
	A text genre is a type of written or spoken discourse.

Discussion
	Texts are classified into genres on the basis of the intent of the communicator.

Examples
	Here is a table showing some text genres and the communicator's intent for each genre.
	Text genre Communicator's intent is to . . . Narrative Tell about a sequence of events. Procedural Give instructions on how to do something. Expository Explain something. Hortatory Encourage someone to do something. Descriptive List the characteristics of something.

Source
	Larson 1984 365–366