8: Circulation of Slam Poetry and The Language Barrier
I’ve always thought that hearing an author read their writing out loud is the best way to understand the work. That’s why slam poetry has […]
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4) Combatting Skimming Tendencies
My genre is user-generated teen fiction. User-generated teen fiction refers to serialized stories published online for and by young adults and teens. Authors (used here […]
4: Book Trailers as a Digital Genre
The book trailer is a digital genre that developed from book covers and movie trailers, and is used as a form of visual advertisement for […]
Genre’s Purpose
In the past, genre was simple and easy for me to define. It was nothing more than a word to represent categories for books: fiction, […]
3: Understanding Genre
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
1: The Magic of Multimodality
As a creative writer, I was well aware that language is key when creating any kind of text. Rather it be a short story, poem, […]
1: The Complexity of the Digital Text
Something that particularly interested me about our readings is the unseen complexity involved in digital publishing. In particular, digital publishing does not simply refer to […]