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.