Discussion of genre- choice, goal orientated, staged, purposeful to achieve social purpose, meaning accumulating over a stretch of text. Genre should not be rigid and static, but flexible. Meaning is realized through lexical and grammatical choices and language is a resource for meaning making. Focus on textual resources to create cohesive and coherent texts, where language is a flexible dynamic interrelated system within which choices are made to create meaning. Also predict the linguistic resources students need in order to make meaning, language audit, role of language and choice