“Critiquing and Changing Genre,” uses a formal tone that describes genre from the readers’ point of view. This text is informative on two ways of evaluating genre. One way includes “thinking critically”, which means reading in depth and looking for certain “patterns” to make certain assumptions, values, and goals of the writer. However, when you read a certain genre in a “critiquing way,” you are questioning, judging and zooming in on the strengths and weaknesses of the genre/writer. Also this text includes how changing the genre relates to the people who use them. This displays the importance of the connection that is needed between the writer and their genre of work. As a whole this text includes many elaborate examples that are hard to relate to as a reader. The lack of relation to the text and the reader makes it more challenging to interpret.
On the other hand, “Getting Personal” by Irene Taylor, is written in an opposite style. She writes from the point of view of a writer not a reader. More specifically she writes about writing a personal essay genre. Taylor shows how to write for yourself while still being conscious of your audience. By giving examples from her writing experiences, she lets the reader know that writing is mainly about being vulnerable especially when writing a personal essay.
Instead of giving step by step instructions on what a writer should do, Taylor uses a conversational tone. For example she says, “The recounting of my experience as a victim (yes, VICTIM)…” By Taylor writing victim twice in the same sentence not too far from each other, and putting the second victim in caps, it can be assumed that these are signals to the reader. She wants to stress to the reader that their attention should be drawn in and/or amazed by what is, or is about to be said. She gives plenty of indirect suggestions while tying them into examples from her life, this makes the text easy to read and comprehend.
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