Monday, September 12, 2011

Getting Personal & Critiquing & Changing Genres

From reading "Getting Personal" I learned that you have to want to "dig deep" and really put your feelings out there to be able to write a personal essay. If you just list events it becomes more of a narrative. You must meet the expectations of your readers, so that they feel like it was worth their time to read what you had to say. You can use a personal essay as a way to explore your own problems.
While reading "Critiquing and Changing Genres", I had never thought that a writer could actually create a new genre; this is true because whenever you write you are being creative and putting your own thoughts into your writing resulting in variation. If a writer modifies too many elements of a genre, the reader will no longer be able to recognize what genre they are reading. By critiquing your own genre, you are able to identify the scene, key patterns within the genre, and what the patterns tell us about the scene. Genres are changed when peoples attitudes, ways of knowing, and goals change.

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