What does Katriel & Farrell contribute to our conversations about everyday
Writing? Are scrapbooks and Zines examples of everyday writing?
We have been talking about how everyday writing is personal and is more than just words written down on paper or put into a document. Katriel & Farrell give us a more in-depth understanding of a way to communicate without the use of words. The use of visuals in scrapbooks communicates a particular event or experience that generally happened in the creators life without the use of written words. Though the in-depth, personal meaning of the experience is not fully understood by the reader or audience they can still get the overall meaning from the visuals in such a way to convey the message. Though it may be argued that scrapbooks are not everyday text because they do not include words, it is also true the a form of communication is undergone and that is what a text is. Since there is no set way that scrap booking has to be done or class that tells you the exact method of creating the perfect scrapbook it fits with our understanding the everyday text is not institutional. There is nothing that says that you must use this many pictures or put them in this order with these colors.
I would argue that scrapbooks are examples of everyday writing due to the personal and untrained aspect of the text. Zines depending on their purpose I feel could be everyday writing. An original zine that has not been produced I would consider an everyday text due to the uniqueness and originality or them. But a zine that has been mass produced for sale I would not consider an everyday text.
Writing? Are scrapbooks and Zines examples of everyday writing?
We have been talking about how everyday writing is personal and is more than just words written down on paper or put into a document. Katriel & Farrell give us a more in-depth understanding of a way to communicate without the use of words. The use of visuals in scrapbooks communicates a particular event or experience that generally happened in the creators life without the use of written words. Though the in-depth, personal meaning of the experience is not fully understood by the reader or audience they can still get the overall meaning from the visuals in such a way to convey the message. Though it may be argued that scrapbooks are not everyday text because they do not include words, it is also true the a form of communication is undergone and that is what a text is. Since there is no set way that scrap booking has to be done or class that tells you the exact method of creating the perfect scrapbook it fits with our understanding the everyday text is not institutional. There is nothing that says that you must use this many pictures or put them in this order with these colors.
I would argue that scrapbooks are examples of everyday writing due to the personal and untrained aspect of the text. Zines depending on their purpose I feel could be everyday writing. An original zine that has not been produced I would consider an everyday text due to the uniqueness and originality or them. But a zine that has been mass produced for sale I would not consider an everyday text.
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