Monday, February 23, 2015

PB3A


For my writing project 3 I am going to write on the topic of Ebola. I wrote about Ebola in my writing project 2 and liked it a lot. This topic interests me a lot and can be easily written about whether it is for a younger audience or for an older audience. For my younger audience I was going with ages six through ages 8. I am going to do a children’s book. The reason I am going to do a children’s book is because I feel like that is how a child starts to learn reading, but also doesn’t lose their interest because of the pictures that are in the book. When I was growing up I always loved children’s books, my mom use to read one to me almost every night before I would go to bed and I loved it! In the children’s book I was going to write so that a six year old could easily understand what was being said, and the pictures that I am going to draw can easily be related for what the text is saying. For this writing project 3 I am going to have about ten pages in my children’s book to make it a good one. Children’s book range for pages and I think ten pages is right in the middle.

For the older group of people I was thinking about doing some text messages. Text messages are very common for this generation. People love to text. For this group of older people I was thinking between the ages of 30-35. This isn’t very old, but can still be considered aged adults. People in this day and age love not talking on the phone, they would rather just text and make things more convenient for them. For this project I was going to have a conversation between a boyfriend and a girlfriend and somehow factor in the topic of my scholarly text. This should be easy because I am able to talk using a more profound vocabulary and the older generation of people would understand what I am trying to say. Although texts can range from a very long conversation to a short one, for my writing project 3 I am going to do a in the middle conversation, just to have enough to make it look like they were talking for a little.

This writing project is my favorite, I feel like it is open to whatever you want to do and that is what writing should be about. Writing should be what you want to write and how you express yourself, and that is exactly what this project is. I feel like both my topics are both the most popular topics for those ages in this day and age, and that is why I chose to write about those. I look forward to working on this project because I love when I can create something from nothing and be as creative as possible.  

6 comments:

  1. Cole, I really thought your idea to make a children's book was great but the reason why, I thought, was very intuitive. When we talked about children's books in class as an option, I never took into consideration how much children's books affect kids and their development. A child can read the same story multiple times and never be annoyed but trying to get an adult to do the same is difficult. I also thought including yourself made your pitch for a children's book all the more effective.
    I am excited to see how you would illustrate Ebola and make it relatable to children. You would have to strike that balance of informing them, yet not sending them into a panic. The approach for the more matured age group, on the other hand, would be more conversational, and therefore easier to follow than a peer-reviewed academic text. Texting, especially for people in their thirties, is probably a better resource for learning about Ebola because it is done in a calm setting and through a familiar person. However, I have to question the qualifications a boyfriend may have to talk on the subject. You may want to add a short, "So I was reading something about Ebola today", that way the legitimacy of the information from the peer reviewed paper may stay in tact to some degree.
    Overall, though, your pitch was well done. Ebola is an important subject that all age groups should have some information about and the approaches you are usng are sensible.

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  2. Cole, I really thought your idea to make a children's book was great but the reason why, I thought, was very intuitive. When we talked about children's books in class as an option, I never took into consideration how much children's books affect kids and their development. A child can read the same story multiple times and never be annoyed but trying to get an adult to do the same is difficult. I also thought including yourself made your pitch for a children's book all the more effective.
    I am excited to see how you would illustrate Ebola and make it relatable to children. You would have to strike that balance of informing them, yet not sending them into a panic. The approach for the more matured age group, on the other hand, would be more conversational, and therefore easier to follow than a peer-reviewed academic text. Texting, especially for people in their thirties, is probably a better resource for learning about Ebola because it is done in a calm setting and through a familiar person. However, I have to question the qualifications a boyfriend may have to talk on the subject. You may want to add a short, "So I was reading something about Ebola today", that way the legitimacy of the information from the peer reviewed paper may stay in tact to some degree.
    Overall, though, your pitch was well done. Ebola is an important subject that all age groups should have some information about and the approaches you are usng are sensible.

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  3. I like the topic of Ibola because it is very related to our daily life, and people all desire to know the information since they care about their health. The reason why you choose children’s books is intuitive and straightforward. And you also narrow the younger audience to a specific group of kids. It makes the genre more direct. And also you connect the habit of reading for adults between 30 to 35 to genre of introducing Ibola, which is great because by doing this can easily grab adults’ attention. A text genre is creative, but hard to get its convention because different group of people may use it quite different even they are all at the same generation. For example, my parents tend to text in a formal way like leaving their names at the end of it. However, other parents may use emoji a lot, which is a relaxing way. It needs to be careful to analyze the convention of text.

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  4. Cole, after speaking to you in class, I think that either the topic of ebola or marijuana is a good idea. I like the direction that you are going in though. The idea of children's book is great. A lot of us were read too as a kid and I think that this will relate well for the younger audience. I am very curious to see what you do with the text message genre. It will be very interesting since texting plays such a big role in our lives today. Im glad that you are going to enjoy this project and I am very curious to see which direction you choose to go in. Good luck and I cant wait to see how it turns out.

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  5. I agree with Edwar on your reasoning for picking a children's book. I think it's cool to analyze how reading affected us when we were little. If you're at all artistically inclined then I'd love to see you do the drawings to go with the text of the book, but if not at least include cool visuals because I think they is as important if not more than the actual words in a book aimed at little kids. I feel like the text message idea might be used by a bunch of other people, so try to do something cool with it. Are you going to use texting as a way to tell someone the information about Ebola or are you going to have it be more of a two-way discussion rather than just telling the other person the information? Just wondering. Overall, the topic as well as the two genres seem pretty well-thought out.

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  6. Cole,

    I'm glad that you're juiced up about WP3. I am too. I had a decision to make there -- should I ask everybody to bust out another research-based argument or should we have fun and get creative? We should have fun and get creative,

    OK, so I remember talking with you about this during Monday's class. Be very deliberate about what you want to do here -- in the text convo, who is talking, what is their relationship, what's the context of their conversation? What elements of the original genre do you wish to incorporate into that text convo -- using the conventions of a text convo?

    Wooooo-eee. So cool.

    Good luck with it.

    Z

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