It is sort of interesting to me, how most children and teens are extremely impatient to become older and gain freedom. As tweens, they feel so much excitement to be eighteen and then to turn the glorious age of twenty-one, but at some point as people get older, most start dreading their birthdays and begin feeling old. Once individuals are in their fifties, sixties, etc, most want to truly ignore how old they are becoming and some will stop saying how old they are turning. The excitement of celebrating another year alive is definitely gone and it nearly all becomes consumed with dread.
Because of this topic of getting older, I decided one of the genres I would like to turn my academic article into is something similar to a Buzzfeed post about turning twenty-one. The audience for Buzzfeed posts are usually individuals in their late teens up to their early thirties. Specifically for my post, the audience will be people in their late teens and twenty-year-olds actually turning twenty-one. The post is going to slightly amusing, informal, probably contain images that are related to the topic, a really interesting title, and so on. All of these are common conventions of these types of post. I'm not still exactly sure what route I'm going to with, either the positive parts of turning twenty-one or the negative parts.
The other genre that I want to turn my academic article into is a personal letter to my grandma wishing her a happy birthday and comforting her about turning eighty-seven years old. The objective of a friendly personal letters is to demonstrate a strong personal connection between the writer and the reader in a way that is more touching because it takes longer to construct that a simple text or email. Even though personal letters can be sent to complain about a company or something similar to that, this letter is to convey a specific emotion. Because personal letters can be sent to anyone, the audience is rather large, although younger generations don't send personal letters as often as older generations.
I'm still wondering if these genres will be enough to satisfy the requirements of WP #3.
ReplyDeleteAnother interesting topic. It’s really cool to see how everyone’s ideas are so different.
The Buzzfeed style article has been very common because it is such a popular news and media source for young adults and teens. It is true to see how people begin to dislike aging as they get older, but I am a bit confused how you are going to incorporate this idea into the article about turning 21. Is this the point at which people are most excited to age or do they begin to dislike their birthdays? Make sure to clarify its relevance to the topic in your self analysis.
Also, I was confused about the email to you grandmother. Is it from you (a teen) or from future you (an adult)? You could make it a letter from your mother to your grandmother utilizing a genre with an older audience. If the email is from you it is unclear if you have a genre from an older and a younger audience. It will be very interesting to see the different conventions you can use to show the author's careful tone and attitude towards the grandmother’s aging.
It was a really smart move to keep your options open with those two articles so that you don’t feel totally stuck with one while you explore ideas for WP3. I was thinking about using BuzzFeed for a younger audience too! Do you have an idea what your title would be? Will you use 21 things that are good/bad about turning 21? How will you incorporate the factual aspects of the article? Your idea for the older audience is interesting. I’d be intimidated to tackle that genre, but I think that if you are able to incorporate the info of the article well, I think it could come out as being really clever and creative. I think so that you could have more content for the letter genre, you could also include a reply from the grandmother about how she is feeling about getting yet another year older. This way, you get two perspectives in, which is really what your topic is all about -- getting older as a young adult and getting older as a middle-aged and beyond individual.
ReplyDeleteYour ideas and what you want to tackle in this WP are very interesting. For your younger generation, the Buzzfeed article is a great direction, because I have yet to meet a teenager who does not know what Buzzfeed is. To be more specific, are you going to focus more on males or females? I think it would be easier to narrow your options and focus on one or the either, so it is more organized and so your audience is not confused. This would come out really cool, because Buzzfeed is always humorous and entertaining when it comes to relating to our everyday lives. You should definitely direct your titles with a numerical connection to your topic. (I have no idea if that sentence made sense)- But, for example, I have seen articles with titles like, “21 Men On Tinder Who Just Really, Really Need Jesus” or “19 Pictures That Will Give You Intense Flashbacks To Grandma’s House.” Also, for the older audience genre translation, I am curious if your genre would relate more to the younger generation, because if you write it, is it not coming from a younger person’s perspective? If you could somehow incorporate an older person's voice/perspective in (maybe a response), it would work. Anyways, good luck!
ReplyDeleteYour topic of getting older is cool and unconventional. I would honestly not have thought of that. This is a cool topic since most kids don’t actually think about getting older until they actually start to get older and their teenage years and young adult years fly by. One question I have is what are you going to put into the article for the younger audience. I see it is going to be similar to a Buzzfeed but what is going to make your post itself? What’s it meat? I really like that your genre for the older audience is a personal letter saying happy birthday to your grandma. It makes more personal and helps it seem more real. A question I have is what your going to include in this that connects with your scholarly article since you’ll have to point out the relation in the self-analysis. This is also a question I have for the younger audience piece. Thinking ahead will make writing the self-analysis way easier. I think this whole idea in general is awesome though since it allows for a lot of freedom. Your two genres don’t have strict conventions that you have to follow. So good luck.
ReplyDeleteI really love the genres you chose, I think they correlate very nicely with the academic article. I also like your reasoning for your interest in the academic articles, and I agree completely, it is so interesting the way that people's perception of getting older changes over time, maybe you could include that in the BuzzFeed one. I think the BuzzFeed idea is a good choice because I feel like they have been gaining a lot of popularity lately, and that topic goes along with the types of themes they usually do with their videos. As for the older audience, I feel like your genre choice makes a lot of sense, and it is a good approach, I feel like you can go a lot routes with it, you can make it very serious and respectful or can make it playful and humorous. So great choices, for someone who says they struggle with creativity I believe you have came up with some good and relevant ideas, so good job and best of luck!
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ReplyDeleteYou could definitely do a funny bday card, as long as (1) there was some obvious effort behind it and (2) the other transformed genre was a bit “weightier” than the card.
A Buzzfeed article is also a great idea. I also like the humorous/somewhat sarcastic spin you seem to be putting on your ideas—that should make these transformed genres fun (that is, if it’s a convention of that genre).
The personal letter/email to grandma could also work.
My ultimate advice is this: As long as you’re starting from the specific scholarly article and asking yourself, “OK, what parts of this piece can/should I pull out for my transformation… how can I bring this to life?” pretty much anything can work. Remember, too: these are other aspects from the scholarly source that you can pull out besides just “getting old can suck.” How was the study conducted? What data did they collect, and why? What did previous researchers find? These are all possible angles for your transformation if you think they’re (1) important and (2) relevant in some way for the genre you’re transforming them into.
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Wow this is such a cool idea, I am a little jealous. I also really like the title of the PB and the use of pictures in this PB. I thought it was great how you extracted the essence of the scholarly article in both an effective and interesting way. Both of the genres, older and younger, seem to make sense in terms of the prompt given, as in they connect to the scholarly article in a meaningful way. Which is awesome. And both of them seem to be entertaining both to read and to write which is good for you I suppose. Overall, I think that you picked a good idea that fits into the prompt nicely, good work!!
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