1. The writer is trying to find out about how different genres of students become or want to become sucessful in writing. How they represent themselves through writing. Some questions that she asks are: what is their disipline, enviroment, and goals toward school.
2. She focuses on three different people in a small religious liberal arts college.
3. Contradiction.
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Although it's just convention not to do so, you usually wouldn't hear someone say "genre of students." Genre does mean "type" and one would say "type of students," but we reserve the word "genre" for types of texts (like books, essays, cartoons, movies, and so on).
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