Blog 7: Model Text Recipe

Analyzing Your Model Text:
For each of your model texts, answer the following questions. The questions whose headings are bolded and underlined should apply to everyone’s texts and everyone should answer. The questions with italicized headings will only apply to certain kinds of texts, and thus you should address only the questions that apply to your genre.

What modes does your text make use of?
Color, illustration, design, text, transitions, acetate
Audience
Who, very specifically, is the audience for your text?
Young Adult dog fanatics
How does the author use pronouns like “you,” “we,” and “us?” When the author uses these pronouns who is he/she specifically referring to? How do these pronouns affect the way the author is constructing an audience?
the use of pronouns is minimal in her illustrated model, because the model text is generally just a description of one specific animal.
How does the author construct a relationship between themselves and their audience?
The relationship is established with the use of the acetate looking glasses. This creates a tangible connection.
What words or phrases stand out and let you know how the author is imagining their audience?
Like I mentioned earlier, the audience is pretty general, however on multiple occasions, the use of inappropriate words targets a young adult or adult audience.
Authorial Identity:
How does the author construct his/her own identity in relationship to the reader?
The author constructs her identity by placing herself in the story. She shows her perspective on the dog by giving her glasses. She also constructs her identity by her artistic style.
Does the author use “I” or “me”? Why? And how does this affect  their relationship with their audience?
Yes, she uses “I” when speaking about her own relationship with Jazzie, this shows how personal the subject is.
Purpose:
What is the author’s purpose in writing? What is the author hoping to accomplish in the world with their text? How do they want people to feel, think, or act differently as a result of their text?
The purpose of Steph’s writing is to make a comical point, every story has many sides to it. She accomplishes showing the different perspectives that come with Jazzie. The reader is given the option to pick which side they want to believe, its one way the reader connects to the author.
Find the sentence or two where the author first gives the indication of their argument and highlight it. Where does this fall in the text
Each page has a reflection from either perspective. So, each page shows the opposing arguments.
Find the sentence where the author most clearly states their purpose or argument? Where, within the text is this?
Organization:
How does the author organize the text? How does he transition from idea to idea?
The author organizes the text by first introducing JAzzie the dog, and then following up with descriptions of Jazzie, ending with her species. The transition from idea to idea happens as the page turns.
What kinds of words or language does the author use to connect his or her ideas together?
the author uses simple sentences to get the point across quickly and witty.
Genre:
How would you define or name the genre of your text. Remember, a genre is a type of thing that reoccurs, has conventions, and uses those conventsions to convey meaning.
I would say this genre is a picture book.
What are the conventions of this genre?
conventions of this genre would be that it uses funny punch lines, the pictures of Jazzie the dog, and the color separating the perspectives.

Images
How did the author use still images (photos or drawings) in the text?
Stephanie drew each image to make the biggest impression on the reader. This is used to describe Jazzie
What work are these images doing to help the author accomplish his purpose?
This part of the book is the most important. The images are engaging and entertaining for the reader, wanting to pick which side to choose.
Are they photos, drawings, charts, graphs, etc.?
drrawings
Why might the author do this?
to make the book fun, and give a visual to help show what Jazzie may or may not be.
How do these images work with the text or spoken speech around them?
The images are the most prominent part of the book, however the text does accompany it in a very subdued and poetic way.

Document Design and Layout:
What  font did they choose to use and why?
The font is hand-written, in a very whimsical way. This gives the book an  immediate cartoon feeling to it.
How did they make use of headings, titles, bold font, or italics? Why do you think they did this?
In her perspective of Jazzie, she uses a coarse and rough font to show how disgusting she thinks Jazzie is, and the font she uses to describe my mom’s perspective is froo-froo and pretty, to give the impression that Jazzie is like a princess.
How is the text laid out on the page? In columns? Large blocks of text? Short paragraphs? Long paragraphs? Is it wrapped around images?
The text is wrapped around the images, filling empty spaces.
How does the text make use of color? What colors  does the text use and why?
the text cooresponds to the color of each perspective.

Making A Recipe for your Model Text
Now, using the information you have gained from the above analysis, imagine you are writing a recipe for creating this kind of text or genre. 
Title your recipe with “Instructions for Making ____ for __(particular audience)____.
Make a list of the ingredients that need to be included in a similar text.
Create a list of steps for making this recipe which explain what order things should be included in and why.



Instructions for Making an historical book for the Dean of the Arts and Sciences college at UNL and the president of Love Library.


Ingredients:

Intriguing and prominent images
Very minimal text
Bursts of color
Clever text
Dynamic layout

Steps to making the recipe:
1.) First make a sketch page of all the different slides, or pages you are going to do
2.)Organize this in whichever way it seems fit. Because the book is historical in this case, I will do it in moderately historical chronological order, or by significance.
3.) Start sketching individual drawings for each page.
4.)place small text on french to introduce the section
5.) chunks of historical and factual context within the mix of images for support.
6.) Bind the book
7.) In the forward, write to the Dean and President of Love, as to why I am writing and illustrating the book.

The conventions I am going to use are historical references, the Korean language, and my own artistic interpretations of the history.

Blog 6: Multimodal Project Proposal

• Remind me and yourself of your original critical question
• My critical question is "As we age, do we become more or less closed minded, and how does this affect our ability to have happiness?" In my first Project, I focused on the growing up, and the innocence aspect of the question. Project 2 was more about a life long journey and growth. Lastly, one part of the question I didn't touch on, is the closed and open-mindedness.
• What new sub-question or sub topic would you like this project to address.
• The sub-question or topic I want to explore is closed-mindedness, and how it affects the daily aspects of life, positively or negatively. 
• What do you want the purpose of this piece or these pieces to be? What work do you want your text(st) to do in the world? How do you want people to think, act, feel, or be different as a result of your text(s)? Note, if you decide to do multiple texts/genres each text might have a different purpose.
• The message I want to get across is that most everything we have learned in our life has been from either personal experience or being told. So, by accepting what one knows is true, and I'm talking a bit generally, is like saying that "I've experienced everything and seen with my own eyes, to say that this is the truth" and therefore act on that conclusion. But then, if a person is misinformed or uninformed, they will be subject to whatever consequences come their way for acting short sighted.  I wanted to focus on the food industry but because of a time crunch I'm unable to do that. However, I love Korean culture. I'm in Love library typing as fast as I can so I can read the book about an old King from the 1500s. It seems to be, most times I tell people that I'm a student of Korean and want to study abroad, they have a puzzled look and ask, "Why South Korea?"
• This question is semi-frustrating, because its like asking "Why do you like The Office?" Its an unanswerable question. Usually I tell people its because its the suicide capital of the world, which most of them don't appreciate. Anyway, I want to show that, Korean culture is extremely fascinating, and that just because one hasn't heard about it, doesn't make it a undesirable destination.
• Who do you imagine for your audiance for your text(s)? Desicribe, as specifically as possible who you imagine reading/seeing your text? Are they simillar to another existing audinace (like readers of X blog or magazine) or are they a group you're defining (like UNL students)? What shared values, insterests, location, gender, age, class, religion, race, etc. do they have in common? Note: If you are doing multiple texts, each will likely have a different audiance.
• The audience I want to direct it too, would be travel enthusiasts, people planning a trip or my boss, who constantly bothers me with the same questions. Shared values would be an interest in history, traveling and culture, location could be anywhere but Korea, I imagine that this would be directed towards an older audience, Christian because Korea is the most Christian Asian country, and not upper class, but someone who has the means to travel.
• What genre(s) do you plan to compose in? Depending on how you choose to structure your project, you might have one genre (i.e. one text) with many modes or several genres, each with only a few modes. Be specific in defining your genre (for example, go beyond just calling something a blog or youtube video--what particular kind of blog or video would it be).
• My approach is totally dependent on how achievable an idea I had is. So, it would be in form of a Illustrated book from two different perspectives, one, a closed minded person who stereotypes SK, and then two, the other person who knows what SK has to offer. 
• What are the modes you think each genre will use?
• The modes would be text, color, design, illustration, 3d glasses, and possibly a hand drawn map with popular destinations.
• Right now, how do you understand the conventions of this genre?
• The conventions would relate directly to SK because it would be landscapes of SK, the history, the language, the culture, everything that makes up what south Korea is.
• Right now, what might you use as a model text. Be specific here. If it is  something from online, include the link to it here.
•  "Jazzie the Pretty Ugly Dog" written and designed by my sister Stephanie 
• http://www.stephwerning.com/the-pretty-ugly-dog