For writing project number three, we have to find a
scholarly journal and convert that piece into two different genres. One genre
being directed to a younger audience and the other being directed to an older
audience. As I research through different kind of scholarly journals, I find
myself thinking, “How am I supposed to change this work into a different genre?”
It sounds difficult and it is something I haven’t done. One of the
scholarly-academic journals I have searched for is one based on Comic Books. Kat Kan’s journal, What Kind of Kids Read Comic Books,
consists of the many different kinds of kids that read comic books and how
comic books are relevant in academics. How can I changed this journal into a
different genre? Can it become an actual comic book itself? Can I make it a
Tweet? Can it be a poem? It must be a certain genre that pertains to a younger
audience and older audience respectively.
When you think of genres for younger audiences, many ideas
come to mind like cartoons, texting, tweets, social media status updates, and children
books. With all these genres, to make the academic journal into one of these,
you have to think about the conventions of the genre. For example, when you
think of a children’s book you think about illustrations, animals, farms,
color, and short simple word/sentences. By taking these factors into consideration
you can create your own children’s book.
In this case we take the topic of the different kinds of kids that read comic
books and put it into a different perspective. I would have my characters be
farm animals discussing who reads what. There would be a pig that reads history
books, a duck that reads comic books, a horse that reads comic strips, and
other kind of animals that read different materials. Then the duck will ask the
others if they have ever read comic books. They all would answer yes and the
pig will go into detail saying, “Comic books lead us to read different things.
It showed me that reading is fun to do!” Of course it sounds like a moral of a
story which is also a convention of children’s book genre.
On the other hand when you think of genres for older
audiences, you come across bills, resumes, newspapers, emails, and poems. I
feel like this conversion is more complicated because the scholarly journal has
high vocabulary that u expect older audience to read in their genres. If you were to translate this journal into a
poem, again you must consider the conventions of a poem. There are many
different kind of poems, haikus, sonnets, free verse, but the first thing
usually think of when it comes to poems is rhyming. For example, I would have
my poem be, “Comic Books are for everyone/ read by many or one/ smart or not
smart/ with or without art/ Comic Books are for everyone.” This would not be my
final poem because it is very simple and can probably qualify for a younger
audience as well. Again to change the scholarly-academic journal to a different
genre, we must consider the conventions of the genre and also consider the
audience.
Your introduction for this piece was a very smooth way of transitioning into the topic itself. The fact that you decided to do comic books is freaken awesome because I love reading comic books! I actually thought you were going to use a comic book as the genre for your children's audience but you went with a children's book which is cool too! I would say tell us right off the bat in your second paragraph because I was a bit unclear on what you were going, your last sentence really concreted what you were doing. I liked how you described the characters and plot of the genre, thats cool. As far as the poem goes for your adult audience be careful with the level of difficulty you decide to do your poem on. You don't want to end up with two pieces in which little kids can relate too. But hey writing a poem would be something changeling to do and my hats off to you for that! Your WP3 seems likes its going to be badass though so good luck!
ReplyDeleteHey Carlos, comic books are awesome and I am intrigued by your topic. You have many idea to convert the article into a genre suited for either a younger or older generation. You are spot on with incorporating animals towards the young kids. Kids fucking love animals. Whatever you are going to do with the younger generation, please put an animal or animals in it, even if it does not make sense. Animals plus picture book equals profit. You also have a few idea for the older generation, my personal favorite is a bill because it would be very surprising to see if you took an article about comic books and put in a format of a bill. You talk a bit about poems for the older people but do you think a poem is generally directed towards an older generation? I think a poem can go both ways, it just depends on the audience you prioritize. I look forward to what you create and good luck with the Writing Project.
ReplyDeleteSup Pena. Your ideas for the two genres are really cool. You got all the conventions of a children’s book down easy, so I don’t think you’ll have that much of a problem converting the article. Something that you mentioned (and I think Herman mentioned this also) is the fact that children’s books usually have a moral as part of the proverb. Definitely include that. As for the older audience, the biggest concern is that the audience of poems aren’t necessarily older, as you pointed out. That aspect is going to be very integral as to whether you answer the assignment. Other than simplistic diction, what other conventions of poems are absent in those that older audiences read as compared to those that younger audiences read? Hope that makes sense to you. However, I’m sure you’ll be just fine. Good luck with the assignment, and have fun with it! Cheers.
ReplyDeletePena,
ReplyDeleteIt looks to me like these three comrades -- Franky G, Taylor, and Mitchell -- stole all the advice that I can give.
Pick something with purpose, think hard about the conventions, give audience a lot of thought, don't forget about context, and you'll be good to go. :)
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