PB3A
For WP3, my topic is whether teaching explicitly
connection between reading and writing can improve students to read more. By
reading Bunn’s “Motivation to Reading”, which is a scholarly academic paper, it
proves that teaching reading in terms of its connection to writing can
encourage students to read more and increase the probability that they find
success in both activities. But it is too scholar to most people, because it has
over twenty pages, and a large amount of evidences and examples. Except a part
of people who interested in such research, few people is willing to read such a
long and boring articles. Thus, if the audience of paper changes, it has to
change the genres in order to attract the specific group of readers.
If the audiences of this paper are
younger children, it has to change genres. For children, most of them like to
reading comic instead of thousands of boring words. They also cannot understand
such scholar words or sentences in their age. The most efficient method to help
them understand the truths is to combine words and pictures. These pictures are
easier to them read and understand compare to words. They also are more willing
to look pictures rather than read articles. Thus, my first idea, when the
audiences change to younger children, is to transform the academic article to
be an essay with illustrations and pictures. However, the only drawback of this
idea is that pictures, which can conform to my thesis closely, are so hard to
find.
In addition, younger children like to
read stories but not academic articles. Then I have another idea when the
audience becomes to younger children. I can transform such scholarly academic paper
to an interesting and attractive story. To be a story, the language should be
easy understand, the tones should be relax and hooked. In general, it has to
attract children’s attention. The main idea of the story can be like this:
there are two young children in the village, and both of them want to be a
writer in the future. When they go to school, they have different teachers. One
of them is told that reading is relative to writing closely and reading can improve
writing too. The other one is not told the connection between reading and
writing, teacher only ask him to read as much as he can. When they graduate
from school, the one who is taught the connection between reading and writing read
thousands of books and write just like writer. But the other one only read
several books, and write articles just like before. To extend the story and
make it more interesting, I believe it can attract most of younger students.
` When the audience changes to older people,
academic paper and stories neither can attract them. They do not have so long time
to finish reading such a long academic paper, and the story is too babyish to
them. For older audience, it should be a short essay which also is reasonable
and persuasive, since older people will not believe a baseless conjecture. I believe
changing the academic paper to be a news report is the best way to older
people. The main idea of the news report can be like this: According to expert’s
research and proof, teaching connection between reading and writing can
encourage students to read more and increase the probability for student to
success.
These are my current idea for WP3. I hope
I can have more and better ideas before I write WP3. And I also hope I can
finish it successfully.
Hey Oscar,
ReplyDeleteSo I think it's actually pretty cool how similar your scholarly article is to Bunn's "Reading like a Writer." I think you will definitely be able to incorporate our readings into your analysis afterwards. Regarding your actual transformations, how will your older audience really connect to a news report about writing and reading? What conventions will you use in order to capture your audience and keep them entertained? Regarding the younger audience transformation, how are you going to use conventions that really engage the children because that can be hard? Always think about what your reader is reading because, like we discussed in class, you have much more knowledge on the topic so always try to put yourself in their shoes to truly have good support and to get your meaning across. It's important to have good ideas but to also be able to get them across well. You got this and good luck!
Oscar,
ReplyDeleteInteresting choices. I am also writing about Bunn’s “Motivation to Reading” and creating a comic book for the younger audience. It’s a solid choice. I agree that a younger audience would not have the time and patience to read the whole entire article, so summarizing it and incorporating pictures with important details is the way to go. As someone commented on my paper, though, who is the specific audience? Is it a teenage audience or more of a college audience? Make sure you know exactly who you are writing too. Good job at including the exact moves you would use in your story to make the comic book appeal to the younger audience. And as for the news report, good start to it. As you are able to think of more, complex ideas about this genre for the older audience, be specific and know exactly who the audience is.
Oscar,
ReplyDeleteI think that you chose a great article here, although I’ve gotta say that I don’t agree with your statement that “it is too scholar to most people, because it has over twenty pages, and a large amount of evidences and examples.” Does evidence and examples automatically make something “scholarly” or just… well supported?
So I’m a little unclear as to whether you want to create a comic for your younger genre or an “essay with illustrations and pictures”—or do you imagine that these are the same? Either way, I think it’s a cool idea. The questions are: what will you include in it, and why? Will you have characters? If so, who… and why? What are some other conventions of comics/essays+pictures that you could purposefully include? You addressed some of these questions, and I think it’s the two kids with different teachers is really interesting and creative—it’s almost like a human experiment, and it reminds me of the plot of an Ayn Rand novel. As far as your concern for finding pictures—use all the resources you can: searching the internet, drawing them yourself, or finding a website that creates characters/people/faces are all possibilities.
I’m also unsure if you want to create an essay or a news report for your older audience—remember, these aren’t necessarily the same genre. They may look similar, but that doesn’t mean that they serve the same rhetorical purposes. You could do either one, but I’m not convinced that you have a good purpose for doing so. WHY do you want to create these genres? HOW does it relate back to Bunn’s piece? WHERE would the piece be published/read/written? WHO would be writing it?
I’d like you to keep brainstorming Oscar—maybe even think up some creative ways to transform the original genre. Don’t settle for what you know; expand your horizons.
Z
Hi Oscar,
ReplyDeleteI like your idea that the genre should be changed when its intended audience is changed. I think it is one important aspect that we should consider when we start to work on genre translation. What is your intended audience interested in? What elements grab their attention the most? You may ask yourself these questions at the beginning because they may inspire you with more general ideas about how to change the genre before you go to details, such as tone and voice. Also, in your first plan, you said it is hard to find pictures related to your topic. If it is possible, you can draw them yourself. After all, it is a essay for children, its illustrates do not have to be very professional.
I am assuming you are going to create a news report for older audience, but I do not see a very clear relation between your idea and your topic. The main idea of this news you mentioned sounds, from my personal viewpoint, very similar to a title of an academic paper. I think you may add some news-y element to your idea, such as the emphasis on currency of your news?