Thlog 8

Thlog 8

            It is week 8 of Winter 2016, and we have two week left in this quarter. In the eighth week, we mainly talked about WP3. In the first class of week 8, we learned what is transformation, what is difference between transformation and translation. Since our main goal of WP3 is to transform one genre to another one. In addition, we looked into children’s book in order to know what kind of genre is suitable to children. Also, we discussed the uncounted different genres to older and younger audience. To different audience, articles will have different kinds of genre in order to attract specific group of readers. In genre, in the first class of week 8, we talked about different genres to older and younger people, which are prepared to write WP3.

            In the second class in this week, we also discussed some important materials that are prepared for WP3. Also, we are assigned which article should read in order to be the background of WP3. There are not allowed that more than three people write one topic. After assigning the reading for WP3, we have to revisit the reading, and read more specific in article. I chose Michael Bunn’s “Motivation in reading”, which talks about whether teaching connection between reading and writing would encourage students to read more than before. The essay uses scholar method and academic evidence to justify teaching the connection between reading and writing clearly to students indeed can improve students to read more. But, the genre of this article is too academic, which cannot attract younger people to read. In order to attract younger people to read, it has to change the genre of this article. That is what WP3 asked us to do. And I hope I can finish my WP3 successfully.