Journal #3

After considering Katriel & Farrell's analysis of scrap-booking and the text on Zines, I believe that scrapbooks and zines both qualify as everyday writing. Some may argue that a scrapbook contains more pictures than words, and therefore not count. But words, just like the things one would find in a scrapbook, are images used to convey ideas. Katriel & Farrell state that  one must save, organize, and present the parts of their scrapbook. That is the same thing one does with words: take the ones you have, organize them, and then present them. 
Also, Scrap-booking is not usually something formally taught, and, as we discussed in class, everyday writing is something non-institutionalized. Lately, in class we have been focusing on the non-digital forms of everyday writing, which zines and scrapbooks certainly count as. 
One problem I have with counting scrapbooks as everyday writing is that, as the text said, a scrapbook needs to be performed. Looking through a scrapbook is the "skeletal" form of the story. The creator holds the majority of the meaning behind the things on the page, and without them there to explain, the reader doesn't fully understand. I'm not sure whether or not the meaning has to be fully expressed in text for something to be considered everyday writing.