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Reverse outline of WP1

Paragraph 1 -  Every sport has some type of news media that their fans can go to and review updates throughout the season and even after the season.

Paragraph 2- NBA’s player profiles includes insights on a player from the time they’ve got drafted until now

Paragraph 3 - ESPN’s player profile includes a player’s history along with fun facts and videos.

Paragraph 4 - Rotoworld’s player profile about a player informs readers on what he/she is doing outside of that sport.

Paragraph 5 - Even though these three player profiles have its differences, they all have something in common. Their targeted audience is sports fans, commentators, and athletes.

The organizational/structural approach that I took to my WP1 was first coming up with an argument and then going from there. I first tried to find a good way to introduce my argument along with a thesis. After this, I found three examples that I would describe. The next two to four pages would eventually be directed to each example. After talking about each example and analyzing, I came up with a conclusion to describe the similarities and differences that I found within the three examples.

Moving forward, the changes that I might make will be to stay on track. After re-reading my WP1 it felt like I was just writing just to write and not getting to the point. I also felt like I went off track with my argument. It seemed as if I was talking about certain things that was off topic from my argument. Next time, I will incorporate sources from the assigned readings correctly rather than just have them floating through out my essay. Also, I think next time I will read the assigned reading more in depth. It will be easier for me to write and include vocab from the reading. In general, moving forward I will most likely have more people to peer edit my work and give me comments so I can make my writing better.

WP1 Proposal

WP1 Proposal

Reviews > Sports Reviews > NBA Advanced Stats > Lebron James’ player profile

Social Media > Youtube > Vlogging > Eva Gutowski

                            Sports  > NCAA > Team’s Analysis > Uconn Women’s Basketball

PB1B : Genre Generators

PB1B

Inspecting Genre Generators

As I inspect various genre generators from SCIgen, comic strips, memes, and random movies.  you will notice that all of them has its similarities and differences. These differences are very unique because each generator is specifically designed to give you a different perspective on certain things that you might have actually thought different about in the past. Before I did my research on each generator, I gathered a few thoughts on what might each look like because I never knew what a genre generator really was. I figured each different generator will be a totally different genre because they will most likely  generate different words, conventions, and images each time you use them.

The first genre generator that I analyzed was created by a company named ScIGEN. SCIgen is a program that generates random computer science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. It aims to “maximize amusement, rather than coherence”. Here is an example of  SCIgen website’s randomly generated scientific research paper is “Rooter: A methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy.” This example of a  randomly generated paper conventions that I noticed was the formatting and organization of the paper. It had an introduction, analysis, experimental evaluation, experimental analysis, data tables and charts as well as a conclusion. I also seen more conventions as I closely looked at the paper, that I didn't even realize the first time I looked at it.  It was surprising to see the abstract of the paper, titles, implementation, hardware and software configuration, experimental results, related work, multi-processors, and references of a research paper.

The second generator that I analyzed was Pandyland comic strip generator. This generator created randomized comic strips based off a certain genre or word that a particular person would type  into it. I already had an idea of the conventions that I would find, but thee majority of conventions in this generator are similar to most comic books, which are eye-appealing, easy to read, colorful, narrative/storytelling, graphic, cartoon-like, and humorous.

The third generator that I analyzed were memes from meme generator. Since already knowing about memes, it was easy to talk about it and explain it more on why a meme is a meme, and also pointing out the conventions. A meme is a viral cultural symbol and also a social idea. The majority of memes are captioned photos that are intended to be funny. Other memes can be videos and verbal expressions. A meme can be almost any idea or concept expressed in some form of content on the web, which is why it can be difficult to get a real definition. It can be a photo, a video, a person, an animal, a fictional character, an event, a song, a belief, an action, a GIf, a symbol, a word or anything else. Memes often gets shared all over the Internet.

The last generator that I analyzed was one that I picked on my own which was random list of movies created by “SuggestMeMovie” I chose this because movies are very hard to choose because so many are released into theaters or for rental every week. A random movie selection probably isn't any better or worse than your choosing.  Sometimes if you try to look for a good movie, some critics have their own opinion and might can influence you from not watching a movie that you might actually like. You type in the year you want to watch a movie from, genre, ratings, and keywords eg. a famous actor/actress, topic, etc and then boom a list of random movies is right there for you. The conventions that stood out to me were easy to use, helpful, straightforward, colorful,  and organized. Each time the generator is used it suggests you a new movie.

I know you’re wondering how can thinking about what’s happening in these websites can help someone better understand genre? It starts with conventions, they play a big role in genres. Understanding a genre’s fixed pattern of conventions can help you better understand a genre. Analyzing these four different genre generators made me realize how much of a variety there is of genres out there. You can see that every genre has its own characteristics, tone, purpose, text, and audience. In conclusion, each genre and its generator  is unique in its own way. Some uses more imagery and less information than other genres but together the goal of each is to please whoever uses it.