From the article: "[Early] in the century the authors of business discourse textbooks helped to stabilize the newly developed resume, and at the same time they disseminated it to students taking business discourse classes in university schools of business across the U.S. . . . The textbooks copied other textbooks, and over time the resume became established as a fundamental part of professional job pursuits, learned by students in school and practiced by them in job application contexts. But within this process of genre dissemination were circumstances that ultimately affected the characteristics of the genre itself."