Wednesday, January 14, 2015

PB1B

In SCI generator, the essays are about computer science research paper. Research paper, as one of the specific type of genres, has its own common conventions, and this generator website contains the main conventions of the genre. One common convention is that they target small professional audience. Research papers are the type of writing that are hard to understand for people who have little knowledge on the area. Hence, they normally dont get published in public magazines or scientific journals. They tend to be read among those professional scholars in that area. Another convention is that they break up the research outcome and procession by parts. Normally they have the abstraction part, introduction part, architecture part, implement part, result part, related work part, and conclusion part. They start with a title that introduce professional knowledge in that area. Those research papers are quite long that not only easily distract readers but also increase the difficulty to find the thesis of the paper. In this case, they have the abstraction part, one of the conventions of research paper, to mainly introduce the topic and the conclusion of the research. Moreover, they have an introduction part to introduce what the research is and the preparation of the research. Then they will have architecture part which mainly talks about the method of finishing the research. In implement part they contain the process of the research. Sometimes the result part is similar to the conclusion part, and therefore some papers only have one of them, which concludes the research outcome. The related work part is similar to the work cited page in academic writing, which contains citation. Similarly, some papers tend to use reference instead of using this part. 
In comic generator, I tried to generate couple of jokes. Unfortunately, I dont think I find fun in it. But this comic genre has very common conventions. First, it has pictures. The form of narrating stories is based on the conversation between two people. It must be short enough to achieve the goal of relaxing. Otherwise, people will just find boring like the research paper which is too long that get break up into several parts. In comic generators, the comic stories are only have three pictures. The outcome in comic must be different from common sense. This characteristic can be  used to satirize the current event, or just playing the role of relaxing. The surprising outcome basically is how the comic gets its fun from. Another interesting convention of comic genre is that the strange way of picturing. The pictures in comic tend to exaggerate the facial expression of the characters in order to get funny effect. The audience of comic from this generator, in my opinion, is for children, because I really dont think it is funny or it satirizes something. It is kind of boring to me at least.
Meme generator is very popular through internet nowadays. The convention is straightforward. First, it also has the picture like comic genre. The difference about the picture is that meme has to contain the popular character in the picture, mostly only one character. It can be a character from a popular cartoon movie, or a main character in a popular comic story. In other words, the pictures in meme genre has one popular character in the picture that takes nearly the whole spaces. In addition, there are at most two short sentences that separately are put on the top and the bottom of the picture. Letters in those sentences are capitalized in order to attract attention. The meaning of the sentences are connected to the character in the picture. Sometimes it is the famous saying from that character, and sometimes the character in the picture visualizes the sentences. Between those two crucial conventions in meme genre, it is unnecessary to define which must follow which. This genre will work perfect only those two conventions have strong connection. The sentences must make sense based on the character in the picture. Those sentences can either be used for fun like comic genre do, or be so famous that get wide spread through internet. The audience of meme genre is basically those who use internet a lot, because it is rare to see those pictures in public places, like at mall or school.

1 comment:

  1. Yue,

    Your bio:
    This was very funny—nice job! This part made me laugh out loud: “ people often call me Miss.You loudly. Then I wonder: who miss me?” Great stuff, Yue! I hear that Majong is a very cool game. You should bring it to class on one of the last days of the quarter in case we have an extra 5 minutes at the end of the lesson.


    PB1A:
    College admissions essays are definitely a distinct genre. Like you said, there’s a balance between formality and casualness that makes it especially tricky to write.

    I thought that you made a great observation about the expectation of academic language in this genre. These sentences were right on-point: “For example, when I tried to use the story of volunteering in Nepal to exhibit that I am an adventurer and also love helping others, I didn’t write the story like I did in my diary; instead, I used more serious words like “achieve” rather than “do” to connect the noun “goal”.


    PB1B:
    You’re absolutely correct that scholarly research pieces are intended for a “small professional audience.”

    It’s OK that you didn’t think the comic generator was funny—you accurately pinpointed many of the conventions, and that was the goal of the assignment. I also wanted the class to see how we need to look closely at genres because most people probably believe that the audience for all comics are children. However, with this genre, we can see that you need to closely at the content in addition to the form to understand the whole genre.

    In Writing 2, we’re trying to train you to become super-observant so that you can get down to the nittiest of details and adhere (if that’s what you want to do) to the audience’s expectations. You seem to be doing that quite nicely, Yue.

    Check plus.

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