This document discusses key theoretical terms for the first week which are genre, defined as a text type or goal-oriented social process, and semiosis, the making of meaning through choice and potential. It describes how the authors of a park design discussed potential genres by using Central Park in New York as an example, and created their first sketch to encourage exercise in nature for busy workers, with many paths and a gazebo near a lake for relaxation in the middle of a busy urban area.
This document discusses key theoretical terms for the first week which are genre, defined as a text type or goal-oriented social process, and semiosis, the making of meaning through choice and potential. It describes how the authors of a park design discussed potential genres by using Central Park in New York as an example, and created their first sketch to encourage exercise in nature for busy workers, with many paths and a gazebo near a lake for relaxation in the middle of a busy urban area.
This document discusses key theoretical terms for the first week which are genre, defined as a text type or goal-oriented social process, and semiosis, the making of meaning through choice and potential. It describes how the authors of a park design discussed potential genres by using Central Park in New York as an example, and created their first sketch to encourage exercise in nature for busy workers, with many paths and a gazebo near a lake for relaxation in the middle of a busy urban area.
In the first week, our key theoretical term is Genre and
Semiosis. A genre can be referred to as a text type. It also
may be defined as a staged, goal-oriented social process (Martin 1992, p. 505). Semiosis is described as the making of meaning (Knees 2010, p.93) and choice or potential makes meaning. Before we draw the park, we discussed about the potential of other park that we can implement to our park. We use central park at New York as our example to search for the genre we can use to our park. This first sketch (figure 1) of the park was to create the feeling to be in touch with nature and to encourage busy businessman or woman to go jog into our park. We create lots of path way and jogging track so people could get into the gazebo at the middle of the lake from any path near the 4 park gate available. Our park will be built in the middle of CBD area to balance between working and relaxing for businessman or woman.