The document discusses genres, literacies, practices, meaningful content, encoded texts, and discourses. It defines genres as patterns of social activity and rhetorical performances in response to recurring situations. Literacies are socially recognized ways of generating, communicating, and negotiating meaningful content as members of discourses through encoded texts. Practices comprise technologies, knowledge, and skills organized in socially recognized ways to accomplish tasks. Meaningful content is generated and communicated through interaction with encoded texts. Discourses are meaningful coordinations of human and non-human elements that people use to "do life" as situated selves within social and cultural groups.
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