Using the same set of documents that you used in question 4, identify any formal, rhetorical, and stylistic differences among these documents. In what ways does each document stretch, modify, or challenge the conventions of its genre? How would you explain these modifications? Do you see these modifications as examples of the flexibility of the genre, or do they fundamentally conflict with the genre as you understand it?

Data From Question 4:

• What do technical communicators need to know about genre?
• What do technical communicators need to know about writing?
• What do technical communicators need to know about information design?
• What do technical communicators need to know about new media?
• What do technical communicators need to know about collaboration?
• What do technical communicators need to know about international environments?