Genre expectations: the effect when expectations are met or subverted

What this note covers

1. Where a reader's genre expectations come from
2. The generic contract: what the reader agrees to before reading
3. When expectations are met: comfort, efficiency and the ideological cost
4. When expectations are not met: a spectrum, not a switch
5. The effects of unmet expectations on the reader
6. Making a judgement: how much departure, and does the text still hold?
7. Reading expectation quickly in an unseen text
8. How this is examined in the WACE paper

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