Emerging Genres Web Paper 4

The Quest For Understanding Evolution

Submitted by Hilary McGowan on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 4:09pm

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

Redefining Success

Submitted by Claire Ceriani on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 9:09am

Emerging Genres Web Paper 4

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

Emerging Genres Web Paper 4

Louisa Amsterdam
English 209: Emerging Genres
Truth and the Self in the Writing of Self-Disclosure

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