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Group One

Mr. Paur

Discourse 100

30 October 2017

Group Speech Outline

Introduction

Short explanation of Zine

Self publicated articles over whatever the author wants

Lack of restrictions

Impact of this on how Zines are made and distributed

Rhetoric of Zines

Zines varying rhetoric based on content and structure

Example being, you can have a comic book talking about mental

health issues or you can have a scholarly text talk about apples.

Short explanation of what each zine is about

Starting from Crystal, then Cristi, then Jazz, then Shane, and finally Dalia.

Go over what the Zine covers and how theyre presented, not in a huge

amount of detail just enough.

Thesis: Zines allow readers to focus less on the structure and more on the content

of the text as opposed to scholarly journals.

Crystal

About the Zine

Background of Synthia Nicole

Expressive writing
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Formal vs. Informal

Anne Frank and other formal Diaries compared to Damaged Mentality

Cristi

What is riot grrrl?

What it was born out of.

Femenism

What is it and how it's incorporated into the zine.

How it's all laid out

Its texts and graphics

How does this influence the reader

Jazz

Shane

Introduce zine

What my Zine is about

Go over a little bit about what the author means by Indian

Genocide and such

Also introduce the author

Harvard Attendee

Never earned a real degree just attended for 5 years

He was a communist and socialist supporter

Published other zines in support of Marxism and

Communism

Delve into the Zine

Content
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How rich is the content of the Zine?

Is it meaningful?

The purpose of his content

Structure

How does Novack structure his Zine

What does it serve?

Breaks away from the norm of historical papers

Define what norm is

Comparison

Begin to compare with credentials

Novack is a Harvard dropout

How does this change the readers perspective on the text

Compare his work to others that have degrees

How does his structure and content compare to that of other

authors?

Structure

Content

How does scholarly sources communicate with

readers?

How does Novack communicate?

Dalia

Introduce zine

Essays of the minister of self defense

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Author Huey P. Newton

Black Panther Party

Content/ Structure

Collection of essays

Essay in the form of letters

Talks about the political situation of minorities compared to the majority

Uses sources to back information stated in the essays

Very formal

Uses a political type of voice to speak to the public in his essays

Formality of zine

A formal Political style of writing

Audience are people with government jobs

Compared to scholarly journals it is very similar but is still showing the

personal views of the Black Panther Party

Conclusion

Zines allow for:

Readers and Authors to focus less on structure and more on content.

Theyre important because of this unique platform allows for any kind of structure

to take place and be okay.

This leads to an emphasis on content over structure. As long as what you

write about is meaningful, it is generally accepted that you are allowed to

publish whatever you want.

Zines give readers unfiltered and often times raw texts on whatever topic they

choose. The lack of restrictions and lack of consequences allows authors to write
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freely, this then leads to them putting the restrictions on themselves. They

essentially choose how their content is presented, it could be conversational or it

could be professional, both are options for them.