Wysocki

This article discusses visual conventions of different genres. For example the conventions of an MLA or APA style research paper for school is easily recognizable by its formatting. And a children's book is easily recognizable by its pictures and captions. The author also discusses how the genre conventions change as time goes on. What we recognize today as one genre was unrecognizable a hundred years ago and will probably also be unrecognizable a hundred years from today. In addition the author talks about how different fonts also carry their own recognizable traits that give readers context. I though that the interpretations of fonts were interesting because I had never thought of fonts as a genre of their own.