Week 4

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

I agree with Katriel and Farrell’s take on scrapbooks and zines as a form of everyday writing because I think it helps to broaden our idea of what is “everyday” or what is “writing”.  These subjects can include writing that’s organized with other forms of texts such as pictures, and drawings. Scrapbooks and zines are usually personal reflections of the events that take place through an individuals or a family’s lifetime. They are records of things that actually happened and a way of capturing the moment or day in more ways than just written words on a page. It is my belief that records of daily lives such as these should be considered forms of everyday writing. From a historian point of view, scrapbooks and zines are credible records that can be read to discover something about a person’s life. For that I think it is even more of a reason to have scrapbooks and zines considered a form of writing. Also I make the case for our changing society. Maybe at some point before it would be considered ridiculous to put scrap booking under the category of writing. Today however we see the abundant history and popularity of scrap booking and zines so it is far more reasonable for them to now be considered everyday writing examples.