Question 4: Assessment Activity

I will be comparing and contrasting the two genres of critical analyses and ethnography.

These two different genres are very similiar.Both genres require to pick a topic of most interest. For example, i chose band geeks as my subculture for my ethnography paper and chose the strange picture of a cat for my analyses paper. With these two genre's I had to a complilation of research and analyses. Being a band geek for four years in high school, i was constantly surrounded by the environment and knew very well as to style, personality, or category of all "band geeks". As for my critical analyses paper, i found a picture i had never seem before, examined it. According to the meaning of each of these papers an ethnography is way for the author to form his own personal definition abuot a certain topic. As for a critical analyses paper, it is the author's job to take apart his topic in an orderly fashion, discuss and create reasoning, etc, etc. For both genres, it is important to consider the audience as having no idea what the author is talking about. Thus, it is up to the other to formulate a clear and concise idea that most of the audience can hopefully agree to or relate to.