QRGs: the Genre

Questions:

1. What do the conventions of this genre - the Quick Reference Guide - seem to be? [Remember, convention in this context meaning “a custom or a way of acting or doing things that is widely accepted and followed”]
2. How are those conventions defined by the author’s formatting and design choices?
3. What does the purpose of these QRGs seem to be?
4. Who is the intended audience for these different QRGs? Are they all intended for similar audiences? Or different? How & why?
5. How do the QRGs use imagery or visuals? Why do you think they use them in this way?

Responses: 

1. It is basically a bunch of important information on one page. It is usually about  a specific and controversial topic. 

2. They are based on the audience and the specific topic since the intended audience and topic is different. 

3. The main purpose of QRGs is to engage the audience and educate them about the QRG (mostly the major points of a specific topic). 

4. The intended audience for these different QRGs varies since each QRG is meant for a specific audience. That is because QRGs are meant to cover different topics. 

5. They are usually used in the beginning of the QRG to capture the audience's attention. This instantly gets the audience's attention!




Reflection: 

From reading other people's blog posts, I learned that most people wrote the same ideas for each of the questions. For example, most people said that imagery was used to not only capture the audience's attention but to also make it less wordy. Also, most people agreed that the intended audiences for these different QRGs were different since each QRG is meant for a specific audience. The audiences would be different for each QRG because they cover different topics.



The blogs I commented on are as follows: Mariana Beltran and Jon Thomas