After the peer review I got a lot of feedback that I will use to improve project three. My group helped me come up with more ideas for my subversion genre. I really enjoyed listening to everyone else's genres because it helped me think outside the box. I'm still contemplating if I want to do a poll or create a social media account to get my message across outside of the classroom. However, right now I have a documentary about cheerleading for my digital genre and I'm planning on telling a story for my non-digital genre.
Throughout chapter 1 of “The Bedford Book of Genres,” I learned that there are a variety of ways to improve one’s writing. Several writers tend to get carried away while writing that they forget who their audience is and what message they are trying to deliver. This is when one must ask themselves what their purpose of writing is, do they want to present a narrative/ tell a story, inform, or persuade. After figuring out ones purpose they must choose a genre to be able to shorten their idea and be concise. In order for this to occur one must know the basic qualities and agreed-upon rules about the genre they are composing. Once one makes those decisions they move on to the rhetorical situation which mainly explains the idea. This allows the writer to provide support on their purpose such as saying what is great about it or provide statistics, which will automatically make their writing more interesting for the audience to read, as well as, get t...
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