Emerging Genres Web Paper 4
A Final Paper, or, A Generic Experiment [version 3]
Submitted by Jessy on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 1:13am.[this space represents the traditional academic paper which I am fully capable of writing, but which I simply could not be bothered to do.]
A Final Paper, or, A Generic Experiment [version 2]
Submitted by Jessy on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 1:12am.Spent a day trapped in my own head, relieved by
one brief phone conversation, and no writing. It is extraordinarily difficult
to care about tactics in academic writing, when one is so utterly
self-centered. I’m in some kind of waiting room, metaphorically speaking, and
only a very narrow slice of the rest of the world exists to me. Audience, what
audience? The writer is alive and kicking (and crying, and going for walks at 3
am, and at 6 am, and spending whole days getting nothing accomplished, and
playing with hot wax, and setting up a printer, and getting to the grocery
store ten minutes before it closes, and fooling around with the Tarot, and
A Final Paper, or, A Generic Experiment [version 1]
Submitted by Jessy on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 1:10am.
May 21, 2008
(The last line makes me laugh. No, no, don’t skip ahead. But speaking of genres. And if you don’t think it’s funny, it’s because of all the things you don’t know.)
I'm in UR Internetz, Revolutionizin' UR Genres
Submitted by M. Gallagher on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 12:30pm.I'm in UR Internetz, Revolutionizin' UR Genres
“How many telegrams did you send when you had to dictate them over the phone to a
Western Union operator? How many emails do you send now that you can clatter them
Unmasking the Mask (the Interaction Between Blogging and Performance)
Submitted by akeefe on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 9:19am.
The Illusive Sphere of the English Class
Submitted by Marina Gallo on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 12:12am.I have always had a great passion for literature, progressing throughout my life from my childhood when I was captivated by picture books to my more matured love of reading that persists to this day. When I came to college and found myself faced with choosing a major, mylifelong love of books provided me with the obvious answer of an English major. Unfortunately I found out too late that the major was not what I thought it would be. I had imagined myself sprawled for daysat a time amidst heaps of novels, which, upon having read, I would dissect and debate in classes filled with my peer English majors. I had pictured myself in classes filled with
The Blogging Genre: Identity, Anonymity, and Consistency—Why We Blog
Submitted by Christina Harview on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 4:25pm.Recently, a new
genre has been receiving the attention of internet users: the weblog. Using
blogs, we can filter out the facts of our offline world and develop a new online
external identity. This paper will discuss the nature, use-value, and appeal of
this online external identity, discuss the importance of the consistency of the
external self-both online and offline, review the relevance of the unverified
information in blogs, and talk about how anonymity affects the way we perceive
our own identity. Additionally, I hope to shed some light on the blog as an
emerging genre and talk about what the blog's worldwide success reveals about
human nature and psychology (and vice versa).
The Blog
Truth and the Self in the Writing of Self-Disclosure
Submitted by Louisa Amsterdam on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 1:36pm.
Louisa Amsterdam
English 209: Emerging Genres
Truth and the Self in the Writing of Self-Disclosure
Crossing the Intersections of Nature and Technology in Moby-Dick and Online
Submitted by Hannah Mueller on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 4:03pm.
