Clearly writing prose, poetry, drama, film and a PHD thesis had given me a lot of skills, but they were not enough to take me readily into interactive multimedia. What I have learnt from writing for a CD ROM is that the experience is closer to film, drama and poetry than it is to prose writing. By its nature, the book has an author or authors. You are trying to convey something to your audience out there. Underpinning this authoritative nature of prose is the taxonomy of genre.
Some genres are serious and important, others are less so, and others are negligible.
It is demonstrative that the western dominant culture and hegemony has as its strong basis the desire to categorise and to order. In doing so, it relies upon lists which ascribe importance from best to worst. In writing, genre is clearly a part of this urge to make lists, to give value, and to control by categorising. Important genre is scientific writing. It is full of factual data.