chapter one reading response
When I read chapter 1 "Understanding Genres" from BBG, I learned a lot of new information about genres. They are not just the difference between a news article and a book, each genre has specific elements and design that make it what it is. There are different genres to address different audiences and each writer uses their own voice to make their composition different. The style the writer uses is a personal touch that differs throughout each genre. The language, amount of detail used , and the tone are a few things that set the style of the composition. A writer with a less serious style of writing probably will depend on anecdotes and less facts in their work. Whatever genre you compose you must make sure it is appropriate for the audience. This chapter reinforced the ideas I already had in my mind about what a genre is and it helped me learn how to successfully compose a piece of writing in a certain genre by paying attention to elements, style, design, and sources.
I defiantly got the same understanding as you from this chapter when it comes to the variation added by the author. Genres arnt as concrete as i basically felt before they were before. The Burton example given in the book shows what you are talking about and is helpful in the understanding for me.
ReplyDeleteI also got the same understanding as you did from this chapter. I now see that each author kind of writes in their own genre based on their rhetoric situation.
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing is, I personally viewed genres as the type of story a book was about and never considered genre to be the type of format used for writing when you did. You seemed to have had the opposite realization as me but we both still learned.
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