Week 4 Journal

Tamar Katriel and Thomas Farrell have contributed the topics of scrapbooks as a piece of everyday writing. They go more in depth about how a scrapbook is not something that is merely done once or a few times a week. Katriel and Farrell state that making scrapbook takes a lot of time and commitment. The proper formation of a scrapbook must be done with certain techniques and has to be taken seriously, to the point where the creator must give a good amount of his or her time to add on to or improve the scrapbook in some way. The proposal of this topic from Katriel and Farrell actually got me to reconsider what everyday writing actually means. I once perceived everyday writing to be common things that are done on a day to day basis which involve writing, such as taking notes on something, typing up an email, or posting a status on a social network. With the topic of scrapbooks and zines, I believe that for certain things to be considered "everyday writing" solely depends on what the writer considers to fall under such a genre. In terms of the general population of writers all over the world, we believe that everyday writing includes things that we would easily consider to be everyday writing, such as notes or a letter, because these are casual things that writers are most likely to compose on a daily basis. On the other hand, some writers may do things differently on a daily basis that most other writers do not do, such as making a scrapbook.

When it comes to scrapbooks and zines, I feel completely neutral about whether they are examples of everyday writing or not. One may argue that scrapbooks and zines are not pieces of everyday writing because they simply do not involve the act of writing, but it has the potential to. There could be writing that the creator of the scrapbook had originally done in the past which may be put into the scrapbook later on in the present. Others may also say that scrapbooks and zines are not examples of everyday writing because it wouldn't be considered something that people would do everyday, but the truth is, the people who are committed to making these scrapbooks and zines are indeed putting in work almost every day in order to make them more intriguing when the time comes to reflect on one's past or to dwell on one's interest. All in all, scrapbooks are examples of everyday writing, but at the same time, they are not. Pretty much, scrapbooks and zines have potential to be considered everyday writing, depending on how the creator (or even the people who view such works) perceives them.