Genre Recognition Venn Diagram

I’m such a nit-picking perfectionist it’s killing me! I’m working on tweaking my slideshow presentation for a workshop I’m teaching at the Arizona RID State Conference, and I’m creating a Venn diagram because it was suggested by a few of the participants when I first taught this workshop last November. Problem is I’ve never created a Venn diagram before. I’m trying to represent how Genre Recognition is a skill that develops at the intersection of Discourse Analysis, Predictive Skills*, and Genre Theory.

Is this diagram readable? Does anyone have any suggestions for improving it? Can you believe I’ve been working on this for an hour? Urgh! I hate being a perfectionist!

*While Googling "predictive skills" (a term used a lot in ASL interpreter training), I could not find a single page that defined the term. Hm… interesting.

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About Daniel Greene

Daniel Greene, BA, CI & CT, NIC Master, has been an ASL interpreter / transliterator since 1990. He teaches workshops on vague language (VL), genre recognition, and other topics. His other passions are singing and photography. He is married with dogs.

Posted on March 14, 2009, in Interpreting for the Deaf and tagged , , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.

  1. How’s this as an improvement over my first attempt?

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