It's finally the last blog of the semester! Right now I'm reflecting on all the genres and writing assignments I've done for RWS. Even this blog counts as a new genre that I've explored through this class. The first blog where I was introducing myself was a bit tricky to say the least. I like to think that I'm great at introducing myself in conversation, but I'm not the greatest when it comes to walls of text. With so much real estate, I felt pressured to put my whole self on a page of text, which is of course unrealistic. I was luckily able to narrow it down to a few of my valued qualities. Moving forward blogs got easier because I was able to share my thoughts and analysis on topics we were discussing in class. It was a lot less personal, so it was easy to publish whatever I wan ted for the world to see. Hopefully a bit of my personality still showed in the blogs. The blogs were a great assignment that kind of defined what RWS 305 is to me: getting thrown into writing a totally new genre and conquering it. But it doesn't beat my favorite genre that I have written in this class, the memoir.
The memoir was and absolute joy to write! I know I said that it was tough for me to write about myself in my blog and that might seem like it goes against what a memoir is, but that was to introduce who I am! The memoir was a lot more focused, it allowed me to only depict a specific instance in my life, rather than summarize all of it. It was still a hell of a challenge though. I've heard that there are two kinds of people: maximizers and minimizers. Maximizers will make every event in their life a grand drama, while minimizers will do the opposite. I suppose I'm a minimizer, since I usually cope with stressful events by thinking they're not all too significant. The memoir obviously had a very maximizer set of values. I had to take this stressful event that I'd been trying to denounce as a very small issue, and blow it up into something that changed my life. Even with that struggle, it was a lot of fun to write. I thought of it as a nice challenge, plus I love the writing style used in memoirs. It reminds me a lot of novels, which are I genre I really appreciate. The focus on dialogue, sensory details, rising action, and all that other stuff makes it fun to tell a story.
If I had to pick a least favorite genre, it would have to be the Opinion Editorial. If you've read my previous blogs, you would already know my strong opinions on the genre. In short: I suppose I'm just a slave to the rhetoric I was taught in grade school. My values for a valid argument are about logical statements followed by concrete evidence, and Opinion Editorials seem to throw that all away for hyperbole. But even though it was my least favorite, that doesn't mean I hated writing it. After all, sometimes it's nice to just scream my opinions, and I understand why we took this as our first genre. The best way to learn how different rhetoric can be from the single way we've been taught is to learn a rhetorical genre that values opposing ideals. At least I think that's why we wrote it.
No matter which blogs were my most favorite or least favorite, I just want to say that this semester has been a fun experience for studying and writing different genres. I know that rhetoric is something that each and everyone of use engage in every day, so I'm hoping what I've learned here will help me in all my future endeavors. If you've read this far, thank you for reading my blog! I hope you enjoyed it.
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