I use Anne Beaufort’s five overlapping knowledge domains explained in her book to investigate the components of the two genres. In my Results section, I state that although four of the knowledge domains (discourse community knowledge, writing process knowledge, rhetorical knowledge and subject matter knowledge) stay identical in each genre, but there is distinctive genre knowledge particular to each type of patient notes (23). I then discuss how each knowledge domain applies significantly to patient notes and the different genre knowledge that is required for both handwritten and computerized patient notes. Both my primary and secondary sources helped to shape my research into a topic applicable to the class.