Journal 2 - Mitchell Rossini

• Based on your reading of all seven concepts, how do you define "genre"? Is this definition of genre different from how you've understood genre previously?
• After reading the article, I now define genre as what defines the connotation of a text. As  Charles Bazerman writes in the selection, "It is through genre that we recognize the kinds of messages a document may contain. This for me means that a piece of writing that may be written as a satire, for example, has the possibility of being misinterpreted by the audience unless it was made clear that is was meant to be satirical. 
• What are three major ideas about genre and/or writing that you can take away from your reading of this text? In other words, what three ideas seem most important for you as a writer?
• As a writer, the three major points that resonated with me the most were; Writing speaks to situations through recognizable forms, Writing Represents the World, and Writing is Performative. The last one is probably the most important to me personally mostly due to the fact that writing in terms of the film industry is all performative. Especially when you consider the fact that you are, most of the time, creating dialogue that will be read aloud. So scripts are in a sense, a literal performative art. 
• Has your understanding of "genre" and/or "writing" changed as a result of reading this text? If so, how and why? If not, why not? 
• My idea of what genre and writing have not necessarily been changed but rather added on to. The strong additions discussed in the text allowed me to fully understand the entire interpretation of what genre is and how it is used. 
• Are there any concepts or claims in the text that you disagree with? What is it, and why? 
• I agree with all of the points made
• Find two examples of texts that you would classify as being part of the same genre and link to them in your post. Then, provide a brief description of how you see these two texts adhering or not to the seven concepts outlined above. (e.g., I might include two links to Buzzfeed listicles and then explain how the "listicle" is a recognizable form that uses conventions like a title, gifs, captions, etc; how it represents the world/events/feelings by the language and images that are used; how it is multimodal because it uses language, image, moving image, color, layout, etc.)
• http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Psycho.html
• This is a movie script to one of my favorite movies from Alfred Hitchcock. Unless one were to know that the movie Psycho was a horror movie, they would be very confused as to what they were reading. 
• http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/500-Days-of-Summer.html
• This is the movie script to my favorite movie and it applies to the point that all writing is performative as well as the others that apply specifically to genre
• Lastly: what questions do you have about the reading? what more do you need or want to know? what confuses you? 
• I'm honestly perfectly fine with all the information that was given in the selection.