Week 13 Journal

Collaboration is the act of coming together whether it be people or programs working together.  When two people coming together to meet a common shared goal.  Collaboration is vital for any major project.  But to collaborate is to learn everyone's strengths and weaknesses until you have the best team possible. In most cases anything that anyone wants to do requires collaboration.  If you want to gain knowledge, you require collaboration between you and your professor.  If one of the collaborators does not hold up their end then the project will fail.  This is analogous with everything we do. Collaboration plays very little role in everyday writing because everyday writing is often makeshift projects that one person could easily create.  To create something that is fabricated or industrially made it often requires collaboration one way or another.  In other words most works of writing are made out of collaboration and not everyday writing.  Every published book goes through an incalculable amount of editors and critics that go in to the final product of the text.

Week 13 Journal

Collaboration is the process where two or more people work together towards a common goal.  Collaboration works best when all parties are both passionate about the task at hand, are open minded towards new and innovative ideas, are patient and engaged at all times. The more people, the more ideas can be shared and spread. However, with more people it becomes difficult to communicate ideas to the entire group as well as it is harder to convey your specific message to a larger audience. Mastering the art of collaboration is a life skill that everyone needs in order to be successful in college, careers, and in life. There is endless knowledge and ideas available in the world; it is impossible for one person obtain even a fraction of it without the help of others. Collaboration, specifically by utilizing the Internet, makes it possible to share ideas and to use each other to help improve your own personal writings. Not only can we learn from each other’s ideas, but writers can work together to create a piece, editing and discussing along the way. For example, in the article it discusses a “Daily Prophet” Harry Potter blog that is run by a middle schooler. Heather and the other students use the internet to collaborate and keep a blog up to date. The site eventually became a target of lawyers trying to protect Warner Bros. and the Harry Potter Series. However, they greatly underestimated the fandom of the Potter Series and the strength of collaboration. The Harry Potter fan community is massive and extremely passionate about the works of J.K. Rowling.  By using the internet to their advantage, fan communities around the world have shared their writings and worked together to create blogs and run websites and edit columns. Collaboration makes it possible to create writing that is on a larger scale and of better quality.

Week 13 Journal

To collaborate means to work together as a group. People use collaboration for multiple purposes, whether it is to justify a certain argument, to complete a rather complex project or assignment, to sustain and improve a potential community, or a combination of any of the three. In the required reading, we see collaboration in action, as a girl by the name of Heather Lawver creates a web-based school newspaper known as The Daily Prophet, which revolved around the fictional world of Harry Potter and attracted a bustling community of fans who both read and write about what currently goes on in the fictional wizard world. The staff who run the newspaper, which consists of Heather Lawver as the managing editor and around 102 children, work and discuss initial projects and topics together before publishing any official content for the public eye to see. The staff who run the site are always eager to go over each other's work, making sure that there aren't any minor mistakes or mix-ups. The fact that fans of the Harry Potter series visit the site to read the various articles also exemplifies collaboration. The staff choose to publish articles for The Daily Prophet to express their own imaginations, as well as to potentially fulfill the imaginations of other fans. The amount of visitors that the newspaper site attracts dictates just how well the staff of The Daily Prophet are carrying out their job.

In terms of what role collaboration plays on everyday writing, it is a unique action that provides a much stronger effect for the desired work that one (or many) are focused on. For example, designing pamphlets and deciding what should be written on the pamphlet and in what form is a common objective that members of certain organizations and clubs tackle in order to get other people to consider joining. Also, as gravestones exemplify everyday writing in terms of context, it is imperative to work with staff who are in charge of what kind of material the gravestone will be made out of, as well as being the ones who implement any sort of design to be put onto the stone as requested by relatives of the deceased. The epitaph is also a crucial piece of a typical gravestone that must be implemented by means of collaborating with funeral-related staff. As we can see from these two examples mentioned, collaboration plays a big role in some forms of everyday writing by putting together a final product which would have most likely had a disastrous outcome if not for the help of others. Collaboration is an action, which without question, helps polish the outcome of a subject of work.

Week 13- Collaboration

To collaborate in general is to work jointly on an activity. In a writing sense, collaboration is when two or more people work together to produce a written document. When I tried to incorporate collaboration in everyday writing, I immediately thought of a newspaper! A newspaper consists of many different articles spanning a variety of topics that eventually come together and form one document. Thus, the team of journalists compose their own writings which essentially are turned into a published document. Another example would be a magazine, etc. 

In the article, a different way of collaboration was mentioned. Here, in regards to J.K Rowling’s, Harry Potter series, Heather Lawver created an online “newspaper” where children were encouraged to read by being able to add in their own ideas and articles. The article states that The Daily Prophet currently has over 102 children in its publishing staff. This would be considered everyday writing because these children did not necessarily learn how to write fictional news articles in school. They base it off of their imagination as well as their personal lives. Although it is seen as “institutionalized” because it is an imaginary school, there is no adult supervision, no one to tell the children what they can and cannot write. Therefore, it is completely up to their own discretion. 

Collaboration helps people feel a sense of usefulness as well as a sense of unity. Textbooks are often written by numerous people because there is so much information. They could be considered everyday writing because school subjects are based around them and students use them for practical use every day. 

Week 12 Journal

Since the beginning of time, humans have used many different mediums to communicate information with the people around them. The mediums have evolved as a way to simplify the lives of those who use them, with each new method outdating the next. Paper replaced cave drawings and digital media was supposed to replace paper. The primary relationship between digital media and print is that they are both methods of relaying and storing information. There are some key differences between print and digital media. Digital media is limited because it is often stored on a large hard drive that is difficult to transport, while paper on the other hand, is flexible and can be transported easily. For example, in an office, if you have a document that you need to share with a coworker, it is much easier to print it out and walk it to him, rather than to unplug your desktop and carry the entire monitor and hard drive over to him.

Over time digital media may take over completely and render paper useless. The invention of smartphones and tablets have made it easier to transfer information. You can email, text, and instant message anyone with the tap of a few buttons. That little sticky note message that you needed to leave on your co-workers desk can now be sent in a text message and it is reliable because they has a greater chance of seeing it. Furthermore, computers take up less from than a filing cabinet. A computer can also store almost 500 times as much documents as a filing cabinet. As times change even more and our technology advances more, digital media can completely replace paper.

As technology advances, everyday writing will evolve. I do not believe that digital media can always be considered everyday. However, as the media evolves, it has already begun to change what everyday writing entails. 15 years ago, everyday writing was very limited to print, now, forms of digital media such as twitter and Facebook are considered everyday.

Week 12 Journal

What is the relationship between print and digital media? Will one medium replace the other medium? And what does this mean for everyday writing?

The relationship between print and digital media is they both are a medium for bringing up different information.  The difference however between print and digital media is the fact that digital media has to be completely electronic, whereas print media can be either digital, hand written, or physically printed out.  Digital media is more effective, faster and more user friendly.  Because of these few attributes print media will soon fade until it disappears.  Digital media also does not use any paper or resource so it almost as no cost.  The process has already began because hundreds of years ago because it was vital that every important saying or document had to be written down and stored away.  Today everything is digitally stowed away in the hard drives in the archives.  This fact could mean that the meaning of everyday writing will change because writings wont so temporary.  They will be around forever and could possibly be seen by anyone for the rest of time because the essence of locality will be gone.

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Before digital media, there was only paper. For hundreds of years records of entire civilizations were recorded on paper. Now that we have technology that allows us to digitally create and store, paper has in ways found a new role and stayed the same. For most students paper is used for everyday writing to take notes in class, or to jot something important down quickly. Many students also use the keyboards on their laptops and phones for the same purposes. In this example, the relationship between digital media and paper is like a partnership. Its better to say that digital media has print and digital media work together in todays society. They are most often used together rather than separately. Print media has not been replaced by digital media and it is my opinion that it will be a long time before it ever does. The reason for this is in print medias history and what it has come to mean. Many feel that everyday writing done in print media holds more sentiment and personal meaning than a typed message. Such as a land written letter holds more value than an email containing the same “Happy Birthday” message. This is because it takes a physical personal touch to create a letter, whereas all emails look the same because they are typed and not in the persons own hand writing. As for one day though, I think it is a possibility to consider a world where digital media will overtake print media for practical reasons. I do not think it will completely erase print media because at the end of the day we’re all humans and creating something with our hands will always be a need. As for everyday writing, like it has in the past and will continue, I believe that the genre will continue to change and grow as technology develops  and we create new ways to use it. Everyday writing will come to include much more under the digital media umbrella and will always include many forms of print as well.

Week 12 Journal

Print and digital media share both similar and different characteristics between each other. Despite the fact that using less paper was encouraged during a short period of time, both forms of media are still commonly used as of to this day.Both print and digital media are capable of informing or reminding us about something specific. One way that print and digital media differ from each other is their effectiveness. While storing something digitally can be as effective as storing something physically with print, its priority doesn't really stick within our heads, and is usually put at the back of our minds because it is something we choose whether or not to get back to. Something that is stored or labeled in a print format tends to stick with us as time goes by because it is much more tangible, physically allowing us to view either bits of it at a given time or to view it entirely. This gives us a quicker sense of the material. Unlike digital media, print media is also flexible, meaning that not only could it be stored, but it could also be placed in locations which may catch our attention. Post-it notes are a good example of this.

Personally, I do not believe that digital media would replace print media, as they both really go hand-in-hand together. We may use digital media to keep track of information we could not receive as efficiently as it were given to us in print, such as the precise and latest locations of airplanes on a blip monitor. At the same time, print media may be used to record specific information that may be crucial for future events, such as the designation of an airplane, it's radar I.D, and requested altitude for travel. Both print and digital media are writing formats which constantly play active roles in our everyday lives, from taking notes during an oral lecture, to communication by means of mail. Such things can be done through means of both print and digital media.

Week 12 Journal

What is the relationship between print and digital media? Will one medium replace the other medium? And what does this mean for everyday writing?

Print and digital media are the only two was that we can put out thoughts down into a text. They are both used in every day live and by basically everybody. Being that todays technology is so apparent in todays society i find that paper media is slowly coming to an end. Even looking at the difference between schooling 5 years ago and today there is a huge change. We are using less and less of paper materials and sticking more to computers and tablets. The down side to this, as said in the reading, is that when using digital media it is harder to organize  your thoughts. Also, in the writing process you start with a draft, and continue to make drafts until you come up with a final copy. When you use digital media, you are loosing all of those drafts that are important in writing. The content in drafts are very important because they are all of our thoughts scattered, but while some might not be relevant now, they may become relevant in the future. When you use digital media you simply just delete all of those thoughts into nothing, but when they're in print they are permanent. For everyday writing the control of digital media could be detrimental. Everyday writing should be permanent and not be able to just be backspaced away into existence.  

Week 12 Journal

The relationship between print and digital media is that they focus on telling others about a particular thing. Some print media comes from printing digital media, but when it comes to sending something tangible as opposed to sending something digital, digital will always be sent faster because it does not rely on physical transportation, which can be slowed down further if there is traffic on its way to the destination. One medium will replace the other medium for the most part, meaning digital media will replace most of print media. We are in the digital age, and the fact that digital media has become an alternative for some print media can be seen in Nooks and Kindles, which are an alternative to books. However, it will not completely replace every print medium. As they said in the article, “paper enables a certain kind of thinking.” The people who took the flight strips said that they could scribble notes on the paper without damaging the information on the strip, meaning it allows them to work without having to worry about false information. For everyday writing, this means that it may become more digital with time and expansion in the digital world, but print media will likely remain more personal and desirable as tangible things, therefore print media will not go away. While it is faster to use and send something digital, print gives us the ability to learn and means more to us, meaning things like poems and letters, because they are things that can be displayed or kept in a secret box of meaningful items. Digital media allows the digital age to progress, but print media allows us to remain humbly sentimental.

Week 12 Journal

The relationship between print and digital media is rather similar. For example, you can do some of the same things on the computer that you can do writing on a piece of paper, and vice versa. I’d say that what separates our decision-making regarding whether to use on over the other often depends on the situation. At the end of the day, it essentially boils down to preference. If either medium were to take over the other, it would obviously be digital media, due to the significant advances in technology over the years we have been fortunate enough to go through. However, preference is probably going to keep that from happening for a long period of time.  I could write this journal entry on a piece of paper, but choose to do it on this computer because doing so is more time efficient for me. That is my preference. The air traffic controller could probably write his notes on Microsoft Word on a computer, but he chooses to still scribble his notes on little pieces of paper. One might call it arrogance, but an old phrase applies nicely to this situation: “If it ain’t broke, why fix it?” That air traffic controller got to his position doing things the way he had always been accustomed to. How can you blame him for sticking to what he’s most comfortable with, or what he prefers? In regards to everyday writing, digital media isn’t a better example of everyday writing than print, simply because print usually requires the use of readily available resources and is not mandated in any real sense. Computers stray more from the everyday writing because so many things are already ‘set”. Having said that, I think that typing up your own personal documents on Microsoft Word or writing e-mails to someone can be considered an example of everyday writing. Technology has made immense strides as of late, but print is just often times a more authentic and comfortable form for people to use.

Journal 12

What is the relationship between print and digital media? Will one medium replace the other medium? And what does this mean for everyday writing?

Technology in the world is greatly increasing, which has created digital media from print media. Although print and digital media are related to each other, they have different ways of being expressed. Both types of media can be used for someone to express their thoughts and ideas, and show them to a certain audience. With print media, one can actually hold onto or even write on a piece of everyday writing, either on a piece of paper or other printed form, such as a poster or brochure. With digital media, one cannot physically hold the writing, but can edit it or make comments about it through a computer or other digital piece. I don't think that either of these will replace the other, although one might be more popular. Print media is preferred by people who want a physical copy of writing instead of having to know the techniques of using a digital form, probably more preferred from an older crowd. Digital media would be preferred by people who want to be more organized, having all pieces of their writing in one spot, never having to worry about losing anything. There are a great amount of oeople that prefer each type of medium, so I don't think one will ever disappear, at least for a long long time. For everyday writing, this just means that there are more than one way for people to express their writing to an audience. People can get as creative as they want on either a piece of paper or on a blog online, and still be able to create a piece of everyday writing.

Week 12 Journal

What is the relationship between print and digital media? Will one medium replace the other medium? And what does this mean for everyday writing?
 Print and digital media are related in the fact that they are the only two forms of media coverage and are essential to the day-to-day lives that humans have created for themselves. As technology advances over the span of time, digital media has become more and more prominent in every day life, becoming almost a necessity for some. Many courses are turning to online textbooks and homework sites as opposed to the traditional hard paper copies just as much of the news coverage that we consume today is primarily viewed through a digital medium. The reason for this is of course to save money and resources, and in turn to help preserve the environment, to list a few. However, despite this ongoing trend of the transition from print to digital media, I strongly believe that both forms will remain in everyday use for generations to come. A great deal of the individuals from our generation still feel more comfortable with and prefer using print text because essentially that is what they grew up with and what their parents grew up with as well. For example, even with the invention of tablets and Kindles and other digital means of reading books, I am still exposed to a great deal of people who choose to carry books and hard copies instead. I am one of those people. 
While digital media serves its purpose economically and spatially due to its great storing capacity, I feel there will always be a need for print media, as well. Personally, I believe that text in print, though sometimes less easily accessible, is easier to remember and retain, for whatever reason. In terms of everyday writing, this means that because there is such a passionate divide in the preference of these two diverse forms of media, both will persist and serve their own purpose. Digital media these days is inevitable and becomes more and more a part of the public's everyday lives through social networking sites, online textbooks, and so on. But at the same time print media has kept a strong hold as well through those individuals who still prefer books, magazines and newspapers, for example. Everyday writing is defined by each individual separately and which forms of media they choose to utilize the most. For some people, magazines are not so everyday because they would rather view them online, and vise-versa. For this reason  believe that neither form will be disappearing any time soon due to the difference in media preferences. 

The Social Life of Paper Week 12

     The relationship between print and digital media is that they both are under the category of "everyday writing." Both ways of mass media communicate certain ideas and are intended for certain audiences. I found it very interesting when I read that, "Every country in the Western world uses more paper today, on a per-capita basis, than it did ten years ago" because everyone always talks about how computers will replace old-school methods of communication and how we are turning into robots and such. Obviously, there are some instances when using a pen and paper would be less time-consuming and easily accessible rather than a digital source. For some reason when I make lists I like to write them out instead of putting them on my phone for the fear of an accidental deletion. Print media allows the messages to be permanent, whereas anything involved in a digital way can be easily altered.
     Just like mentioned in the article and reiterated by Amanda, all kinds of print media and digital media can be filed according to personal preference. Computers and software come with an organizational system, however, when dealing with papers, the organization is more manual. A handwritten letter is more personal and unique because it is time consuming, rather than a quick e-mail which can be circulated to a variety of people at one click of a button. A letter needs to be stamped and carried by the post office, whereas an e-mail can be immediately distributed.
     I strongly believe that both ways of media will still be used forever because both accomplish the same task in different ways. As technology keeps growing, there is no doubt that there will be fast and simple ways to communicate wherever someone is, but if these methods fail, there is always a writing utensil and a piece of paper somewhere.

Week 12 Journal

What is the relationship between print and digital media? Will one medium replace the other medium? And what does this mean for everyday writing?

Both print and digital media play a significant role in our daily lives. We rely on certain information to come from a print text and other information to come from our Facebook feeds. In recent times, there has been a drastic urge to reduce the amount of paper we use because "paper kills trees" and dead trees kill us and a whole bunch of other environmental B.S.. Though this may be true, many people don't realize that without paper many of our daily functions would cease to exist and that would drastically affect how our world operates as a whole.

When computer technology started, as Gladwell stated, it was not supposed to replace paper. In many ways in modern society with the Go Green campaigns, populations around the world have begun to reduce the amount of paper they use and start going paperless, using computers to file and store many of those documents. Inventors have created devices to easily allow the transfer of files from paper to digital. But Gladwell states, "Everything we know about the workplace suggests that few if any knowledge workers ever refer to documents again once they have filed them away . . ." This can be seen with Dewey's invention of the filing cabinet. Once papers had been taken off the desk, out of their piles that produced active and ongoing thinking, things became less of a priority and eventually not referred to. The same can be assumed for computers, as their original function was to organize files and essentially "store" paper instead of having and excess and unnecessary amount of paper lying around office spaces.

Digital media will not, in my opinion, replace print media, at least not in this generation. I wholeheartedly believe this because paper and thus print media play active roles in our lives. If I write a to-do list for myself it stays in my mind because I'm actively thinking about the things that I need to complete to make that list shrink. But yet if I were to do the same on my iPhone, that list would get thrown to the back of my priorities because of other easily accessible functions my phone has. There have been countless times where I've gone onto my phone to set an alarm or check my email and twenty minutes later I'm scrolling Pinterest wondering what exactly I was supposed to be doing. Print media enables thinking as Gladwell says. Our piles on our desks, to-do lists in our notebooks, random notes we've left for ourselves all activate our minds into the here and now, but digital media cannot do that. Digital media stores our files for another day and sends us into a lull.

Week 12 Journal

Print media and digital media are very strongly related. Print media came before digital. With the advancements of technology, print media was “digitalized”. Both forms have similar qualities and come with particular advantages and disadvantages to using each one. Print media has the convenience of physically being able to annotate and edit. Print is preferred because many people like to be able to have a physical copy to read and edit as opposed to having to pull the file up online and read off of a computer screen. On the other hand, digital media can be stored and organized electronically, saving space and paper. However, by storing digitally, the “art of piling” as discussed in the article is lost. With little thinking, almost subconsciously, paper and other forms of print media are organized in a very specific manner. For example, if you were to exam my desk, you would find notebooks in one drawer, a pile of important receipts on one shelf, a pile of business cards, a pile of miscellaneous papers consisting of bank statements, syllabi, access codes for online books, letters from friends, and anything else that comes across my desk. This pile is organized by time, most recently viewed items towards the top. The way my desk is organized makes sense to me, if an outsider were to come and try and find a text, they would not be able to find it as easily as I would. The advantage to having the text in print form is its ability to be “piled” or spatially organized. Piles represent how we think. Paper is spatially flexible, so it is able to be organized and arranged in a way that fits the owner’s needs. Digital text on the other hand can only be organized in a way that is set by the program used, there is much less room for flexibility. Due to the fact that both digital and print possess their own advantages and disadvantages, I believe that both mediums will continue to coexist. People will always enjoy the advantage of being able to pile print medium, spatially organize, and physically edit paper. However, the ability to quickly share and publish digital media will also be favored. Everyday writing will continue to exist in both forms. It simply depends on the user’s needs and preferences when choosing which medium he or she will pick to communicate their message.

Extra Credit

What did you learn? What do you find most interesting about hook's piece? Be specific. Also, discuss the role that issues or race, gender, sexuality or class play in everyday writing.

If given hook's assignment, I would probably design a house with a significant amount of windows, a lot of wood features, granite counter tops, maybe a walk-in closet the size of Princess Mia's in the Princess Diaries movie. But if I were given an assignment that focused on our actual living spaces, I would have designed something that didn't focus on those aesthetically pleasing features but rather on the homeliness of the items inside. I grew up in lower-middle class, government housing so having a lot of windows, wood features, and granite counter tops were completely out the question because they'd be a ridiculous amount of money and for what? So a robber could easily see the computer you spent half of your bank account on? hook's point about the difference in class and how they would take the second assignment is interesting to me. It makes a lot of sense that someone who'd grown up with more privilege would design something that didn't function well because function wouldn't necessarily matter because they would have all the space they'd need. hook's argument that those who aren't well off would focus on functionality in the design says a lot about class structure and within that race and gender as well. Those who grow up in a lower class setting know how to make use of every little space. Most know how to think economically, using every little space to their advantage. hook's anecdote about the woman who was completely satisfied with her house being taken up by cots is an example. Material items don't matter to a lower class person because, frankly, they take up unnecessary space when that space could be used for something like a cot.

Race, gender, sexuality and class can all play a role in everyday writing. Wording, phrasing, spelling, what platform a person uses all are where someone can see all of those come out. If it's a letter, the difference could be in stationary: whether or not the rhetor writes using a piece of scrap paper or purchased stationary. It it's a blog post or a Facebook post, it could be how well that person uses grammar and spelling. If someone posts, "yo yall like my new rap it boss af," many people would assume African American, male, straight, mid to lower class, but it could certainly be Caucasian, male, gay, upper class. Race, gender, sexuality and class can all play a role in everyday writing but I think it's a discreet role and something that we don't necessarily need to comprehend fully to understand the text. We can know that the rhetor is gay but what if they are writing an article for a newspaper on the economic standing of the United States? Knowing these don't necessarily affect our understanding of the text. It is within a setting that society deems "normal" that they affect our understanding, for example a female writing a feminist blog.

Extra Credit

First off, I want to say that the assignment of drawing your "dream home" is very imaginative. I would like to think that if I were given that assignment, and if I could draw, my house would be just like the authors.
The author talked about how imaginative reading is and how it is truly a place of the readers own imagination and where they can escape. As an avid reader myself, I believe how that cannot be more true. I like home the author said that this project can connect people with different backgrounds. That people with different ethnicities and race and levels of poverty can have the same dreams.  The author points out how if the students were told to think about the surroundings of their dream house. I believe that too be true because someones childhood would effect how they dream to be as an adult. For example, I live in a Miami suburb but my dream house would be located in the mountains or in New York City (two polar opposites). I think that would happen because I have gotten very bored in my childhood area that I want places that seem exotic to me and places where I can explore and the mountains and New York City both have that option for me.
I believe that race, gender, sexuality, and class all play major roles in everyday writing. These facts can change not only the topic of the writing, but can also change the writing instrument and surface. The conversations are very different between an  african-american, gay male that came from a background of poverty compared to an upperclass white, straight female (and other variations of both, of course). Everybody has a different story that leaks into their everyday life and I do not see why it would not seep into their everyday writing.

Extra Credit

     While reading through "Black Vernacular: Architecture as Cultural Practice," my eyes were open to many new things. I had no idea that writing could be subliminally political. The art project that the author's teacher assigned could have gone in  an extremely and opposite direction if the children were asked to construct a house similar to what they live in. A vast majority of the ideas of structures would be different. For example, Hook mentions that the assignment could have "...created a sense of entitlement for some and deprivation for others." This would be due to the "white supremacy" and racial discrimination going on during that time. The art assignment would then be shifted to focusing on  political and social hierarchies.

     She mentions that when thinking of architecture, many think of space. In writing, there are certain techniques that writers think about. For example, a writer may always write in a certain perspective, or a particular tone. Both the art project and a piece of writing are explore creativity. The thing that I found most interesting while reading this chapter was how much race and gender inequalities were contained and showed in the project. While it was a "dream house," Hook explains that "...those of us from non privileged backgrounds would have had an opportunity to think about our architecture and design in relation to our lives both in the present and in the future." Even though the assignment was to create the imaginary, most people would base it off of the familiar. 

     I believe that race, gender, and social class play a major role in everyday writing. Without experiences from multiple races, genders, and social classes, there is little information on the situations that they undergo. For example, during the times of slavery, if there weren't any recordings on life as a slave, many people would remain oblivious and perhaps life would continue how it was. Everyday writing is up to the writer. Therefore, the writer can choose to what messages they want to get across to the audience. This piece was very informational and made me think of everyday writing in a different way. 

Extra Credit: Race and Everyday Writing

For this extra credit assignment, read through bell hook's "Black Vernacular: Architecture as Cultural Practice" and respond to it: what did you learn? What do you find most interesting about hook's piece? Be specific. Also, discuss the role that issues or race, gender, sexuality, or class play in everyday writing.