What stood out to me most in the reading from this week is what was talked about in Teaching Two Kinds of Reading and the way in which that relates to genre. I thought the concept of two different types of thinking is really interesting because although almost everyone does both distinct types of thinking, it’s never really identified. In the reading the idea of first order thinking is expressed as something vital to being able to write a successful piece of writing, however I find that when I am set up to the task of writing an essay for a class, instead of taking the time to engage in anything remotely like first order thinking, I confine my thoughts to a distinct essay structure that correlates more closely with what second order thinking is. So basically, my entire life I’ve been skipping first order thinking completely and just jumping straight into second order thinking. I also think it’s interesting that second order thinking relates a lot to genre and the way in which people follow a specific structure to refine and express something depending on what it is; text message, essay, etc. The idea of genre and the way in which we analyzed it in relation to horror movies was relatable/interesting because I had never really noticed how items that were considered the same genre really followed a lot of the same conventions, it was shocking to see how when it came down to it a lot of horror movies with drastically different plots and characters shared a lot of similarities. One question that I have is, although things that are considered to be the same genre share a lot of underlying themes in common, they also share a lot of differences, so how drastically different does, say a horror movie, have to be in order to no longer be considered to be of the horror movie genre? Or is there a main theme that ties down the underlying horror movie genre, and without it, a movie isn’t considered to be horror?
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