Reflective Essay: The Importance Of Being Dog

This semester we delved into genre awareness as a part of our greater understanding of the technologies of writing. Carolyn Miller describes genre as “a typified response to a recurring situation.” With each genre comes its own set of conventions that allow writers and readers to recognize and work with in a specific one. Take for example, an email directed to a professor. There are certain conventions students must follow in order to be successful in addressing their professors. As much as I may want to sometimes, I will not be cursing out any of my professors for their lack of a rubric or inability to follow through with an expected due date. Nope, I push this all aside and politely ask for a few additional guidelines so as to better prepare my essay as appropriate to the expectations of the course.

My time spent in this module challenged me to think deeper about the conventions of certain genres. I had to manipulate them in order to understand them better. I started a microblog on Instagram devoted to my darling puppy, Earnest Worthing Farr. I titled the blog The Importance of Being Dog because my dog’s namesake comes from the famous …show more content…
I found the constraints of the Meme too difficult to thrive in. My own sense of humor does not tend to mimic that of the meme. Although, I can appreciate a solid meme, I wouldn’t be the one to create it. With that said, I picked a meme from the genre that I knew I would enjoy- the bromance of Obama and Biden. My memes fit rather well into the expectations of the genre. I did not test the boundaries too much, because I did not feel comfortable enough within the genre to do so. I believe I was successful in writing for the meme genre simply because I followed its conventions appropriately. I chose a well recognized image from the world of Obama/Biden memes and captioned it accordingly. I posted this meme on my facebook and received some positive feedback from my