Journal Entry #10

Rhetoric and Composition – What criteria do students use to select between possible topics for their papers? This is something I would like to know for myself so I can better select my own topics for the remainder of my college career but I have yet to find an idea of what to research in this area.

English Education – The use of sitcoms to promote appropriate dialogue and communication techniques.
Cultural Studies – How talk shows and self help programming in television have effected the way women see themselves.
Discourse Analysis – Religious publications, propaganda.

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Journal Entry 9

The writer is examining how genre can be a help and a hindrance for students/writers and how their representation of self can help them negotiate through the difference. She also speculates that learning how to master various genre can allow them to fully manipulate it in their writing to, perhaps, ultimately effect change or advancement within it. Informed by prior case studies, she collected her data by studying genre systems at a private, catholic-affiliated college and interviewing its students. The primary genres I've witnessed my peers using as a form of self-representation have been technology based, i.e. the internet, specifically facebook, myspace and cellular phone texting.