According to
Katriel and Farrell, scrapbooks can be classified as “a genre of self”. In
class we talked about different genres and how they relate to everyday writing.
Scrapbooks are everyday writing in my opinion because we do not learn how to
scrapbook from an “institution”, which we said makes things not everyday
writing. You are communicating your ideas and memories through pictures and
other memorabilia. It is arguable that scrapbooks are not everyday writing due
to their lack of words but I don’t believe that matters.
It is also my
belief that a “zine” is one hundred percent a piece of everyday writing. In the
article it describes how they are a do it yourself type of project. It is left
to your discretion to put what you want in it. They give you general guidelines
and tips on how to construct a zine, but again, you are not being formally
taught how to make one. Unlike a magazine, a zine is an original piece of work
for the sole purpose of you. You are communicating some sort of ideas in a magazine
like way.
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