Week 4 Journal

What does Katriel & Farrell contribute to our conversations about everyday writing? Are scrapbooks and Zines examples of everyday writing?

Katriel and Farrell talk about how scrapbooking can become everyday to capture the moments of our everyday lives. While I agree that they can be seen as a text, I wouldn't necessarily consider them writing unless they have blurbs of writing and a rhetorical situation about each individual event on a page. I think that scrapbooking can become everyday if one is dedicated to it, but it can also just be a hobby, something that is done as a relaxing activity. To me for a scrapbook to be considered both everyday and a piece of writing, I feel as if it must narrate to an audience about the events that the creator feels necessary to tell but it also must talk about the significance of the various items included within it and each component of the scrapbook should feel as if it were everyday. What I mean by that is that each individual picture should lead to the next picture, each story should connect in some way to the story on the next page. The scrapbook, in essence, should retell time on an everyday basis. It should go from birth to death including all of the little nuances of life for example, getting married, having kids, graduating from college, one's first job, etc.

Before this assignment I had never heard of a Zine and to be completely honest, I'm not sure I understand completely what the point of one is. They seem to be magazines and magazines have become part of our daily lives as a modern society so I guess they could be deemed as everyday. The webpage says that there are various different genres of Zines and many different kinds ranging from comic books to fan-fiction magazines, so that does classify them as some form of writing.