After reading the article “Navigating Genres” by Kerry Dirk. He explained how different types of genres work in reading. Each genre has its own characteristics and different categories. Genre actually tells what the writer wants to convey and in what tone. Dirk talked about rhetorical genres that how their purpose is to guide by the lesson or give the message that the writer wants to convey to its audience. Doesn’t matter if people are aware of that or not. I like how Dirk explained how important genres help or hurt human interactions. it might be easy for their communicate or they can hurt. It might give them the ability to speak about it or might discourage them. I personally like crime and nonfiction genres because they mostly are reality-based. And have lessons for the common world and crime fiction storyline mainly consist of causes and effects. It really popular especially in the western world because people are really attractive to human behavior and how us human behave in those criminals situations. I also enjoy crime investigation or mystery puzzles and when sometimes I read a book, I imagine that scene in my mind that actually helps me in better understanding.

Dirk’s introducing his essay by mentioning specifically country music. As he said, “If I wanted to write a country song that didn’t do any of the above things, would it still be a country song?” I really like how Dirk started his article to get the reader’s attention that how people really like country songs and lyrics are related to what people feel, like, politics, patriotism, love, hate and relationships, etc. Dirk also said that genres have their own formulas, techniques but mostly try to have similar components. Like he mentioned how politicians when they’ve spoken, always mentioned past presidents or use their statements to make their speech looks more stand out and strong.