Journal Entry 4

Katriel and Farrell contribute to our understanding of everyday writing by expanding our horizons on what can be considered everyday writing. They talk about how scrapbooks are rhetorical artifacts, perhaps compendiums of everyday writing. The pictures and small details inserted into these scrapbooks could perhaps be considered more detailed everyday writing then other sources. Katriel and Farrell think scrapbooks are an important piece of everyday Americana and that would also be everyday writing. While I would consider scrapbooks everyday writing, I wouldn't think the same of Zines. Everyday writing typically doesn't follow a specific code, it has specific mediums, but once it gets too organized and almost too informative then it stops being everyday writing. With scrapbooks there are so many different ways to make a scrapbook and the term scrapbook is just used to generalize all those different ways but with a Zine you are specifically making a Zine and you follow rules, your Zine will be different to others but not by much. The true thing that differentiates the two in my mind is that Zine is a pronoun and scrapbook is a noun.