Kress 84-121

I found this text incredibly difficult to understand . However, the most useful sections were the definitions. One of the best distinctions that Kress makes between genre and text is on page 93. He states, "Text is the category which refers to the material aspects of language, the tangible phenomenon; genre refers to aspects of the organization of the text, and intangible phenomenon." He continues to say that although the two are not coextensive of one another, all textual elements are generically formed. Honestly, I still found myself scratching my head on this concept, but the definitions by themselves make some sense. The conversation in class helped somewhat.