Week 4

Pictures may be worth a thousand words, but if those words aren't written than I do not consider them to be writing. Basically, I disagree with Katriel and Farrell, who believe that scrapbooking is a form of text. Although, the article does mention that scrapbooks have a specific order and displays emotion, as texts usually do, I do not believe this to be enough to make a scrapbook page a piece of writing. They says that scrapbooks are "rhetorical artifacts" and I take that to be similar to history books. And they have stated that there are genres in scrapbooks like "wedding" and "baby book," just like history books can be in genres of past events like "The Civil War" and "The Industrial Revolution." Scrapbooks are something people do as an activity of leisure just as some types of everyday writing may be. But, even with all of these similarities I stand by my belief that scrapbooks are not texts to be considered as everyday writing because there is no writing involved.