By looking at the different styles of painters this week in class, I used a more artistic approach at discovering the moves of each artist. Usually I have been trying to find the rhetorical decisions within textual genres, but this approach of trying to find them within the creation of an image will improve my ability to point out decisions writers make. I learned a lot through how they described each move in their own words and how each artist -- in the Disney video -- chose to draw different parts of the tree in their own way. One guy decided to paint one specific part of the tree, while others painted the entire tree. Also, they used different and unique forms and styles of painting the tree, including the instruments and brushes used to convey the illustration onto the canvas. I believe that this activity opened up the artistic side of my mind, which will definitely help me for the upcoming WP3.
I also found the activity of finding different sources of textual genres for older and younger audiences. I realized that there are so many different types of genres that have audiences of different age groups. Older audiences tend to read and are familiar with pieces such as resumes and tax papers, while younger audiences read genres of less difficulty such as lego instructions and picture books. There are age appropriate material in each genre. For example, kids menus -- for a younger audience -- usually have visually appealing pictures that a younger person would enjoy, but it does not consist of many words and descriptions of food items. So during WP3, part of our assignment is to see what choices writers make to fit the genre description. Doing more and more activities about discovering moves in genres are helpful in being able to point out and analyze the rhetorical decisions authors make in their writing.
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