Wooooohooooo week 4!! Wednesday’s
class was by far my favorite that we have had so far. I found the activity of
demonstrating different genres through Mark Smith’s murder both helpful and
fun. My group and I specifically got really into the making of our genre and
its conventions, and based on the success of the activity it seems that the
other groups did too. It’s interesting how, now knowing what to look for as
conventions of a genre, we were able to identify the “author” of each piece of
writing because of these conventions. For example, my “person” was a coroner,
and those who correctly determined the writer of our document were able to
because of the formal style of writing, and informative content. This was
drastically different than the eulogy written by a college friend which greatly
reminisced on the past and had a light-hearted tone. I guess what I’m learning
is the thought process my brain takes when it identifies what something, and
figuring that out is pretty cool.
I’m also pretty excited to be done
with WP1 since I feel like I’ve been working on it for quite some time now—so on
to bigger and better things (like WP2). This one concerns me a bit just because
I feel like it’s quite similar to WP1, but now with scholarly articles. Then
again, maybe I’ll discover the differences while working on this writing
project, and that is the whole point of establishing the uniqueness of the
conventions of scholastic articles. I guess I’ll find out with time.
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