The professional blog I follow, SteelKiwi, fits the blog genre, as it focuses on a specific type of content and the sharing of thoughts or explanations. A genre is meant to guide the direction of a form of writing, and guide the writer. Blogs are meant to inform the reader about a subject the writer already knows they're interested in, and provide them with additional information on the topic. SteelKiwi does this well and directly notes that it is about the, "business side of software development." As such, it focuses on using a professional tone that is concise in order to accurately provide the reader with information about software development. This is demonstrated well in that it uses the genre of blogs and modifies it to suit a certain audience and topic. Dirk's essay notes this use of genre in his quote of Carolynn Miller: "a rhetorically sound of genre must be centered on...the action it is used to accomplish." In this case, SteelWiki accomplishes informing the audience of various concerns they may have of business and software development.
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