Essays on Blurb

Final Reflective Portfolio

This paper is a reflection of the skills I have gained in this class. It focuses on four texts and analyses them as indicators of my development as a reader and creator of literary and cultural texts. Three of the analyzed texts were created for this class while the fourth was written for a math class.

Part 1: Texts

The Ultimate Book of Martial Arts Fay Goodman's book entitled The Ultimate Book of Martial Arts is already an entertaining read by itself. However, different parts of the book contain paratextual elements that give it a new meaning and make it a more ...

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English 105

Genre Analysis of Blurbs It is interesting to note the nature and range of adjectives, complex-nominal and verbs. This is because these parts of speech factor heavily in genre analysis. One notable part of speech that this paper will focus on is the blurb. The blurb represents an interesting and thought-provoking series of events.. It is important to analyze the text for its structure and would be done by identifying the move structure of the blurb.

The data used here presents a three-move structure that includes:

1. Evaluation: A word written by the same author of the books or novels. It may also be written by ...

Part 1: Genre analysis of blurbs

Blurbs are a genre of writing that consists of short, truncated pieces of text that are meant to grab an audience's attention and get them interested in a larger work. Examples of blurbs include those found on dust jackets of books, and the text found on the back covers of DVDs, books, albums and the like. They are a common method of advertising for these types of media, and for any product that needs a short, enticing description to draw the consumer in. They are hardly ever more than one or two paragraphs, and often superlative language is used in the text. Punctuation ...

The blurb taken as illustration for genre analysis represents an interesting and thought-provoking series of events. It is interesting to note the nature and range of adjectives, complex-nominals and verbs. It is important to analyze the text for its structure and would be done by identifying the move structure of the blurb.

The data used here presents the typical six move structure which includes:

Headlines: This move is to attract the attention of the reader and in the data used for this analysis; the headlines include the text which gives detail of anthrax attack on US post 9/11 attacks. ...