Journal 4

Edbauer’s “(Meta)Physical Graffiti: ‘Getting Up’ As Affective Writing Model” teaches us that time and place have a lot to do with everyday writing.  From this we learn of one particular situation recently following September 11^th when the Twin Towers fell.  A college campus posted a board for students and faculty to express their feelings toward the tragic event.  Three days prior to when the board was supposed to be taken down someone wrote across the entire board “ZEPPELIN ROCKS!!!”  Normally something like this would have very little to almost no effect of someone but in this particular place, and at this particular time, the graffiti offended many of the people walking by to observe the board.  This is a clear example that everyday writing has to be done at the appropriate place and scene in order for the writings affect to “rub off” the right way.  In this I agree with Taylor that everyday writing and all kinds of writing for that matter elicit a specific reaction that is almost unavoidable for us.

            Place and scene also has a lot to do with how ideas are circulated.  The place and scene determines what type of people are going to hear or read the message that is trying to be transcribed.  It is these people that will then be the ones who pass this message on to others, however it is how they interpret the message during the given place and scene that will determine what message or ideas they are spreading.