Month: February 2018

3: Understanding Genre

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Genre allows us to categorize different text and works for art. Once categorized, it becomes easier for us to understand the kind of text we are about to experience. For example, if you’re a college student who walks into your local bookstore looking for a book that will excite you and cause you to further…

3: Defining Genre as a Social Construct

Genre is a method of communication that comes about as a result of a particular rhetorical situation located in a specific place in time and setting. This was not always genre’s definition, and it is still not the accepted definition within certain academic circles. In “Generalizing about Genre,” Amy Devitt explains the problems in the…

3) The Mystery of Genres

When asked what genre is, many people would give similar answers. However, it may not exactly be what you are looking for. According to google, genre is “a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.” However, According to Genre: What is a blog? What…

3) Genre as Goal-Driven Communication

Genre is a purposeful, goal-driven way of communicating. A genre first arises around a rhetorical situation, responding to a particular exigence (or issue). In “Generalizing about Genre,” Amy Devitt writes, “Genres develop, then, because they respond appropriately to situations that writers encounter repeatedly. In principle, that is, writers first respond in fitting ways and hence…

Know Thyself: Ugly Duckling Presse’s Simple Niche

I chose to write a post analyzing the landing page for Ugly Duckling Presse. Ugly Duckling Presse is a small press, a “nonprofit publisher for poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and books by artists. “ I was not exactly sure what to make of the landing page when I first arrived. It is very…

2: Blog about a ‘blog’ – Reddit

For the second blog post, I chose to analyze the blog-esque website, Reddit.  Reddit functions as a platform for communication between users on ‘subreddits’ which are themed blogs that have a singular theme or focus. They range from being extremely vague, Gaming, to being focused around specific subjects.  The excellent thing about Reddit, there is…

2. Learning for all Ages

In the reading my interest was peaked when it was mentioned “that video games help promote literacy because they offer complicated, interactive narratives that game players have learn how to navigate” (77) . However, just like many of my classmates have mentioned, I want to talk about something that applies to various demographics and is…

2: Diversity and Rhetoric

Like many others in the class, I have some artsy literary leanings, and would like to focus my study on a lit mag website. I feel like this is an interesting way to go about examining rhetoric and design because each lit mag is so individual and unique to itself, and thus so are many…

2: Bauce Magazine’s Website Design

For my second blog post, I decided to examine the website design for one of my favorite online magazines. Bauce Magazine is a lifestyle site for “self-made women”, and they pride themselves on creating content that relates to young women with ambitious who come from multicultural backgrounds. They want to inspire women and make the…

2: Poets & Writers Magazine – Design for Creative Writers

Poets & Writers is “the nation’s largest nonprofit organization serving creative writers” (Poets & Writers). I chose to look at their website because I have subscribed to their bimonthly magazine for the past two years. The magazine offers a wide variety of content such as articles on current literary trends, debut authors, and writing advice,…