Museum of Everyday Writing

Robert Castle

3.24.15

ENC 1145

Journal #5

            A museum is a collection of items and information to represent an event, time period, place, and even people. A museum is a carefully organized maze filled to the top with memories, artifacts, testimonials, and pictures. A museum to everyday writing should be no different. The museum needs to contain relevant and prudent information on everyday writing, and it all needs to be displayed in a way that makes the visitors feel as thought they have learned from their day at the museum. Obviously there would be included in the museums texts and artifacts of everyday writing, but people don’t always just want to read about or look at exactly what the museum they are in is about. They also want to know background knowledge of how something has come to exist and they may also be interested in reading prose that analyzes and explains what they are seeing. With all this in mind, I would include, not only everyday writing texts, but also sections dedicated to the people who contribute to what everyday writing is. I would include different rooms that portray what everyday writing was in different time periods and show how it has changed over time. Rooms would be designed in a way that shows where it is that everyday writing is done. Meaning, there would be kitchen tables, park benches, bedroom desks, and coffee tables. Anything that was used to write in a non-formal, and unstructured way would be included into the design of the rooms. The final piece of the museum would be a room with paper and pens so that people can contribute to the artifacts in the museum, and this would also show what was popular in everyday writing at the time. People might write about a recent scandal, or a celebrity break up.