Journal 2- Ashley Ambroise

• My interpretation of genre has previously been the basic concept of classifying one subject to type of writing into a single unit. However, after reading these concepts, I now understand that genre is not as limited as I thought It was and that these seven concepts combine to create a genre. 
• While reading Hart-Davidson's concept of genres are enacted by readers and writers, I see that genre is a visible action, but what makes it classified into one subject of writing is the specific culture that it belongs to. This is important to me because all writing starts out the same, being an idea that is expressed. But, with the addition of citations or pictures, it now has become disciplinary and multimodal, combining concepts to create a single genre. Another idea that intrigues me is that writing is performative. I never thought of writing to be performative unless it was to receive a grade. The example of the Declaration of Independence really showed me what writing can do being that the United States is a superpower due to words written on a paper. 
• My understanding of genres has changed since it is not as simple as classification of texts, there's more to it. Genre now serves more as a purpose for me, not simply this is a comic book and this is a romance novel. Genres are versatile, having some of these concepts come together to create a single unit. 
• There are not any texts that I disagree with.
• Two of the texts I chose were articles from the NY times based on fashion. The first article https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/fashion/what-writers-wear  adheres to the multimodal concept being that this article includes pictures along with its text to display the meaning of the article. The second article https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/t-magazine/fashion/trends-styling-tips-mens-fashion also utilizes the multimodal concept, along with the writing represents the world, events, ideas and feelings. With this concept, the updated fashion review is providing tips on what men should wear based on their ideas of clothing considered as fashion.