thlog

Thlog

Week 8: wow! the weeks are flying by but this week we wrapped up comments and feedback from WP2 and began discussing WP3, where we are asked to transform a scholarly article to something someone older and younger than us would probably read. Honestly speaking, I feel like I’ve learned so much about genres. When we listed the sub genres in magazines it made me realize that genre is everywhere and since genre has been discussed almost every class, I find myself often walking to class or something and fixating my eyes on a sales ad or a flyer. I think about what makes a flyer a flyer and how is the author following conventions. I think it just a way to view and experience aspects of life in a more detail orientated manner.

As we shifted direction to older and younger genres, I kept thinking that language naturally gets simplified for children. For instance when someone speaks about the presidential campaign to their kid, one would tend to say the basics like the “next president of the US” nothing in depth. One usually wouldn’t discuss candidate’s platforms and the three branches of government to a 6yr old. This translation is very important when speaking of genre because the context is lost and how one approaches the audience changes drastically.

On Wednesday we mostly talked about McCloud’s piece which discussed how the author can write in a certain way that can affect how the reader interrupts the information presented. I learned how moments chosen have a significant role when directing the reader, and becomes the author’s choice to either make it clear or create distraction within their piece.

We also talked about summary and I was surprised that it was a little difficult for me to distinguish “why do we summarize? And what the point” of summarizing. But as we talked about it in class it made it clear that a summary is important to give the gist in a time saving form.