INSTRUCTOR: Mat Wenzel, MFA, M.Ed.
EMAIL: mwenzel@fsu.edu
OFFICE: Williams 331
OFFICE HOURS: TUES/THUR 9:15 to 10:45 and by appointment
This course will develop your skill in identifying, researching, and manipulating genres that are practical to your chosen field of study and that you find interesting.
Genre knowledge and practice will be applied to communities in which you have been or are already a part of, communities you are gravitating toward, and communities for which you have an important message.
Choose one of these "features" to read an analyze. Use the conventions to guide your own creation of a feature of someone in your community. Comment below with a link to your audio/video segment.
Elaine Welteroth - Teen Vogue editor
Nate Norman - drug dealer
Stephen A. Smith - ESPN host
https://soundcloud.com/user-299392163-864470456/joseph-paul-de-river/s-R19Kp
Rachel Bailey
I chose to do my feature on Joseph Paul De River, one of the most famous and intelligent people in my community.
Teresa Martin
https://soundcloud.com/user-96557809/segment-6
For this podcast, I chose to feature Paige Spizale who is the person who introduced me to the CHAARG club.
https://soundcloud.com/leh19/florida-state-university/s-c37dz
here is my feature on someone in my community.
https://soundcloud.com/user-138499060/segment-6
Attached is my podcast of a personal feature for a very important person in my community named Danny Yehia. Danny and I meet on a weekly basis and he gave me a lot of information to help me know more about my community.
Chandler Holloway
Kylie Gibbs
https://soundcloud.com/user595153430/personal-feature/s-iMamu
For this personal feature, I focused in on a member of the circus who is in many acts. I asked her about what she did in the circus, what types of classes she takes, how she balances school and circus, and how the circus differs from other sports in terms of stress.