Group:5 Collaborative Journal

Members: Holly Braxton, Caitlyn Anderson, Antonella Ferrucho, John Michel

           

This course is based upon five main values and core concepts that depict what everyday writing truly is. The first that we have come up with is the fact that the writing must be apart of everyday life. It is apart of your daily routine such as a grocery list or reminders as well as it’s over looked as writing itself. The next is what writing really is; it includes more than just words and is any form of expression from graffiti to the arrangement of pictures and articles in a scrapbook. Another concept that we have thought of is the ubiquitous factor of everyday writing; it is everywhere and truly can be found in many aspect of one’s life. For example, Lillis talked about receiving text messages or commenting on YouTube posts as well as protest banners on walls being all apart of everyday writing; Lillis said writing is everywhere, i.e. it is ubiquitous. The formality of writing is also a main thought in this course; the formal and informal act of writing covers a broad spectrum of types of everyday writing from a quit written text to a formally written out letter. The last concept that most heavily pertains to this course is the ordinary nature of everyday writing. Oftentimes to the untrained eye everyday writing is considered to be ordinary and lacking uniqueness, but through the analysis of such texts one is able to discover a plethora of information that otherwise would have gone unnoticed. All of these concepts: the idea of what is everyday, the various forms of writing, it’s ubiquitous characteristic, it’s formality, and it’s apparent ordinary quality, are vital to the fruitful study of everyday writing.