We will also learn about communicating on the internet and building a resume . The four main assignments in this class, autobiography, interview, proposal, and investigation, are designed to cover a range of modes and genres of communication. Autobiography , writing in the first person, communicates self. It is a free-flowing narrative of any style and form with no rules or limits. Interview , writing in the second person, is a conversation with the other, and as such is dialogical by nature.
Proposal is object-oriented and thus is written in the third person.
Unlike both autobiography and interview, proposal has a well-defined structure and specific set of rules. Finally, investigation is the most integrating genre of all four. It has elements of personal narrative, critical assessment, dialogues with informants and experts, and factual background and history.