PB2A: Comparing Genres

When looking through the UCSB library, it is very simple to find a lot of scholarly publications that you can find and are very accessible. When I was looking through after our lesson with Gary to find some articles I could work with on this project. I thought about what classes I am going to be enrolled in next quarter, and one of those I Astronomy 1. This course is very interesting and can be a lot of fun—even though the text in the publication is hard to comprehend. When analyzing this information it requires a lot of brain power (which I don’t have). The author of this publication Peter Brown wants to challenge the students he has tailored this book to be for, just like the SCIgen genre was tailored for the people looking at the websites.

These two different genres have similar yet different aspects that make them that specific genre. The SCIgen genre in all online, and you must research a specific website in order to find out what the genre is about. The book about astronomy on the other hand in hand written although you may be able to access the e-book online, the text is hand written. The evidence that Peter Brown produces is complex and hard to understand. Both of these genres have headings for each section in the writing that is telling the reader what is going to be discussed in the text. In the SCIgen genre generator program you put in a article and it spits it out, meaning that the reader needs headers in order to understand what they have put in. There are a lot of differences though, in the generator you had to know what website you were going to put in and it would spit something out at you opposed to in the book you had the title and other sources to help you find the answer. Only one of these websites has an author, for the SCIgen genre you are required to have a website and then it will pop out a program at you. That program has a website that you can find an author.

When we did the PB1B last writing project, all the websites we were given all were colorful and all highlighted. This book in the astronomy class is very formal, and meant for a audience in order to study, and learn from the text. One of the websites was about making memes, it had a lot of pictures and funny comments. The book by Peter Brown, there are a couple pictures of the moon but nothing that someone would laugh at unless you are Albert Einstein which no one is so.. If you were to be enrolled in the course of Astronomy 1, and have a book that was a joke you would not do so well in the course, that is why these two genres are very different. Although they are both meant for the audience that is trying to figure out what the text or website if about, they both are required for completely different types of audiences.