Often, true mastery of genre is best seen in our ability to mimic the genre forms while breaking our expectations in terms of the message.
Of Related Interest: Music Videos - Parody Videos
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The Oral Tradition: Writing Evolves from Speech
It's no accident that written alphabets are adapted to serve the needs of spoken speech. As humans, our language first evolved as an oral tradition. It's only been recently (in the past five to six thousand years or so - yes, recently) that language has come to be shared through visual media.
Milner Library Resources
Research is a critical component of writing. Whether you write fiction, nonfiction, or even poetry, you want your words to reflect reality - doing this effectively sometimes requires the kind of specialized knowledge best found through the library.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Online Collaboration: Bridging Time and Geography
This Post is Under Construction. To learn more about online resources, see Establishing Your Online Presence.
Blog Platforms for Building Your Online Presence
As writers, we depend upon our audience to provide feedback and support for our work. Fortunately for us, we live in the era of personalized mass communication. Through blogs, social media, and e-mail, we are able to reach out to our readers in new and exciting ways. Here are resources and tips to get you started.
Your Online Presence: Blogging
One of the critical components of writing is sharing that writing with an audience. For English 101, you'll be using online resources to share your work with other members of the class and audiences from beyond Illinois State. The first part of this involves your "base of operations," so-to-speak: the blog.
Setting Up Your Blog
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Shifting Grammar and Syntax to Meet Genre and Cultural Conventions
Today, we're going to examine the role of grammar, style, and syntax in understanding the conventions of genre. This post complements Haley Stouffer's article "How i Lrnd 2 Txt: An Adventure in Genre."
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Fall 2011 Pre-Course Survey
Here's a quick survey to see where each of you are in your writing. Please be sincere in your answers - in genre studies, there are no wrong answers. Every writer is somewhere on the writing continuum - our goal is to help you progress both as a writer and a thinker. Go to Form-->
English 101: Composition as Critical Inquiry
Today we'll go over the course syllabus and several the electronic resources we'll be using over the semester.
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