Journal #3

In our conversations about everyday writing it can be added that scrapbooks are a type of writing thanks to Katriel and Farrell. I believe that there is an argument for both sides of this; whether or not a scrapbook can be determined as everyday writing.

The argument against considering the scrapbook as a form of everyday writing would be simple; a scrapbook is just pictures, so it should be considered art and not writing. Everyday writing should have much more writing than there are pictures. Then the argument stalls at this point.

The argument to consider a scrapbook as everyday writing, on the other hand, could be formulated along the lines that a scrapbook tells a story. The interpretation of the pictures in the scrapbook can change every time someone looks through it. Just like reading a book or a textbook, the more you reread the text other things will become apparent. How the writer organizes the pictures can point to how the writer wants the reader to see their work. The writer could use the scrapbook as means of telling a story through a memory and with captions underneath to guide the reader.

I would choose the latter argument and support scrapbooks as a form of everyday writing. But it surely does not mean that the conversation is over about it.