Thlogg Week 8

This week in class we focused on how to summarize information as well as how to transform one genre into another. To do a transformation we need to look at the conventions of both the genre we are given and the genre we are trying to create. By picking the overlapping pieces and transforming others to fit within it we are able to most effectively transform from one genre to another. We were asked to pick any topic for our WP3 in an attempt to make this project easier, but this actually made it more difficult for me. I ended up just picking something I was learning about in class, coral bleaching, which I do find interesting so it turned out fine in the end. The hardest challenge I face with the topic of coral bleaching is finding genres that will be interesting and possible to transform it into. I do not find something  like a Facebook post or a blog to be something that I would want to create as I am not someone who is super creative in this way. Zack doesn’t seem to like my idea much of the magazine or news article as it isn’t creative, but I find it to be the most effective way to transform the genre of academic article to a newspaper article. I could also try to transform it into a Web MD page like my other classmates and talk about the health of the coral, all coral bleaching the sickness that the page is about. This would be much more interesting and I think Zack would like this much better, hell I like it a lot better and as long as I don’t have too much trouble with the formatting to make it look like a Web MD page I might just do this instead. Learning how to pick apart genres has been key to this assignment and knowing the required conventions of one I am transforming it into are also important. Honestly I never thought knowing this much about genres would be this important but now that I’ve been forced to learn it I find it crucial to understanding texts I encounter. It will be interesting to see how the rest of this class turns out.