PB1B
The SCIgen is a
website that automatically creates random Computer Science research papers. I
tried several random names and found how amazing this websites is! Firstly, the papers generated from this
program have big titles followed by the names of authors you input. Secondly,
the structure of the papers is very clear which consists of 7 parts. For
example, when you entered author bundle A, the structure is introduction,
framework, implements, results, related work, conclusions, and references. When
you entered author bundle B, the structure is introduction, related work, event–drive
symmetries, implementation, results, conclusion and reference. When you enter
author bundle C, the structure is introduction, methodology, implementation,
experimental evaluation, related work, conclusion and reference. As we see from
these 3 examples, the structure of the papers is all the same: introduction
about the research, 3 parts to explain, conclusion, and reference. What’s more,
each paper has lots of statistics and graphs to support its argument. Last but
not least, every paper contains many terms that common people never heard
about, such that API, JIT-compiled ML, XML and so on. As a conclusion, structure, statistics and
graphs, and terms are 3 significant features of Computer Science paper.
Pandyland is a
website that randomly generates comic strips. From the experiments I have done,
I noticed that each comic strip consists of 3 pictures. Two cartoon boys, a
yellow-haired one and a brown- haired one, and sometimes followed by their
“stupid” conversation, comprises each picture. In my mind, this comic strips
generator is not doing well. It can only generate 3-pictures comic strips and
there are only 2 simple boys that are not designed delicately. However, this
program stills shows the 3 basic characteristics of comic strips: several
pictures, cartoon figures and their conversation.
Memegenerator is a
website that can creates memes. To obtain a meme, first of all, you need a distinctive
character to use as the background. It could be a person, a cartoon figure, or
even an animal. Compared with a character that I consider as a carrier, the “notes”
that you add to explain what this character is doing or feeling is more important.
Not only because these notes are all capitalized, but also for the fact that it
is the “notes” that actually express your own feelings. For example, you can
add different notes on the same picture. The point would always be the
capitalized notes, not the characters. In a summary, a meme has 2 pivotal
conventions: a distinctive character and short “notes” following the
characters.
Here is the most
exciting moment--- An additional genre generator! I found a very interesting
poem generator (thinkzone.wlonk.com/PoemGen). This amazing website can create
poems as long as you enter several nouns or adjectives. I tried several times
to create the “beautiful” poems and summarized the conventions of a poem. It is
usually short. One sentence often consists of less than 10 words, and has a
rhythm at the end of each sentence. What is more, it has a specific sentence
pattern that would repeat all through the poem.
These websites have a deep dig into the genre.
They studied the features of genre and use the computer technology to generate
a random one that fits all the conventions. Besides, they always list the
conventions of the genre in order to show the most core heart of the genre.
Last but not least, these websites help people understand genre by giving them
a chance to create a specific genre by their own. The chance to do something by
your own is far more important than just obtaining it from other indirect channels.
So, give the people who made these websites the most sincerely greetings.
You’ve organize the article clearly. I like that you mentioned that topic-specific and academic vocabulary are applied in research papers. I think that this is an important feature of these papers but I forgot to cover it in my article. For the “Pandyland” part, you argue that this comic strips generator is not doing well. Actually, you can try to access its homepage and then you must find more kinds of comic strips in this website, not just “2 ugly boys”. Also, from my point of view, these two simple guys are enough to analyze the features and conventions of comic strips. In addition, I strongly agree with you that these websites help people understand genre by giving them a chance to create a specific genre by their own. If we just collect some works from other sources, we cannot understand the genre well and conventions may be very hard to obtain.
ReplyDeleteChao,
ReplyDeleteAs I mentioned during our first class, you might be the most interesting man in the world. Guitar, stocks, horses, and graphs/tables/science? Damn, brother—I don’t know how you keep up with all of that!
PB1A: You’re the first student to pick announcements as a specific genre—nice outside-the-box pick. You followed up this cool choice with some very thoughtful analysis: “What is more, the tone of an announcement to state its content is always authoritative. There are seldom questions, jokes, or even explains in an announcement.” You’re absolutely right, and tone certainly plays a part in understanding a genre, as well as the usage of humor, questions. etc..
PB1B: I like how specific and “systematic” you were in analyzing the SciGen generator. You nailed the major features and the smaller ones too (don’t forget that something as “little” as font—what size/style/format—can also potentially help us better understand genre). In the future, I’d like you to provide more textual examples—quoting what the two boys and their “stupid’ conversation could help you strengthen your claim that it was, indeed, stupid. (I agree with you, but this would help convince an uninformed reader.)
The link to the poem generator you posted doesn’t seem to be working for me, but that’s a fantastic idea. If you can get that to work, please give me an updated link.
You're doing excellent work on your blog so far. Keep it up.
Grade for both PBs: 5/5
PB1A: “Check plus.”
PB1B: “Check.”
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