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 are basically furthering our thoughts that everyday writing doesn’t have to even have to contain text at all. It really gave you a broader idea of what could be considered everyday writing. The idea that scrapbooks and zines are everyday writing, to me would make sense.  In order to make a scrapbook (or zine) your have the same thought process as actual writing and you come out with the same effect. You’re coming up with information, making its life endless, and sharing its meaning to you with others. The story scrapbooks tell can even be more effective as everyday writing, than writing itself can. It can give you a greater, more emotional, picture of the certain event occurring more so than actual text could give you. In pictures you're seeing the colors, facial expressions, body language, background details and certain things that are normal for the ones in the picture, but to you its something new and foreign that you couldn’t of understood threw text, only imagined. A zine is also a very powerful piece of everyday writing because of the fact it shows what’s important to you and it shows what stands out in your mind, shown in both text and images, which are things that other people might find less significant. Both scrapbooks and zines are great example of everyday writing and they further help me grasp the concept of what “everyday writing” really means.