I found this reading to be relatively informative. The way this reading pointed out how not only writings, but also movies, books, music, ad rhetorical situation and context can be of different genres. The list of academic genres listed on page 125 I think is very interesting, because I never thought of all those types of writings to be genres. The face or vase picture I found to be very neat too, because if the book hadn’t mentioned the image to be a vase I would have only seen it as faces. The image really helped illustrated the point to the reading made of how genres with the same features can be approached from different perspectives. The Digital Universe website presented by the reading was completely new for me; I would definitely check it out when working my research paper.
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I agree with you about the
I agree with you about the picture of the face/vase was really interesting. I had seen it before in psychology books and never really thought about it being used for a reading about genre. I also thought that the in-class activity that we did about genres was fun! I loved hearing the different styles of music
I agree with a lot you have
I agree with a lot you have said here. I also would never have thought about all the different types of academic genres as "genres." I, like most people in our class, thought of genres as relating to movies, or a way to sort music on our ipods. I had seen the vase picture many times, so that did not come as a surprise to me, but I did like the way that the author used the picture to clarify his point.