I found a very interesting academic piece that I believe works very well with what I want to do for my younger audience idea. What also worked rather well was what I hoped to happen when I read my academic piece and that is having a more educated if you will brainstorm of what I can do for the older audience, and it worked out pretty smoothly, for now at least. The academic is an insightful piece discussing the correlation between personality types and the impact it has on the relationships, the study was done on young adults. It is creatively called, “Personality Effects on Romantic Relationship Quality through Friendship Quality: A Ten-Year Longitudinal Study in Youths.”
I had the younger audience idea since the first time we discussed WP#3 in class, and that is to make something similar to a Shel Silverstein poetry book. In my head, it can be like each poem can discuss a different piece of the academic article. For example one poem can be about the three categories of personalities discussed: overcontrollers, under-controllers, and resilients. The next can be the pros of relationships such as companionship another about the cons like conflict, maybe one can be about both. I feel like the possibilities here are endless, which is exciting. Maybe there is a poem that discussed the conclusion and can be the title of the book. Afterall, that is a convention of Shel Silverstein books to have the title of the book to be the title of a prominent poem within the book.
What I am worried about here is the drawings, I was not blessed with the ability to be artistic at all which is quite disappointing. I doodle a lot so let’s hope the helps, also although I respect Silverstein’s artistic abilities very highly, they are simple enough to mimic. I will get as similar as I can get.
As for the older audience, I was thinking to make an advice column. I’m still deciding on what the advice column should be on, because I know there is a lot of routes I can take. It could be giving advice to parents who have their adolescent children and are dealing with their friendship/relationship conflicts. I can also take the route in which it is an advice column of how to properly communicate with your partner or friend because the article does discuss how there are different personality types in relationships: overcontrollers, under-controllers, and resilients. There is a part that discusses how they tend to be in relationships so that is also a route to take.
I have a lot of room in both genres to take a lot of routes, but I think that is a good thing because it will be fairly difficult to be completely stumped, because I can be so creative. I am very excited to get started, having so much room for creativity for a school project is refreshing, so I am crazy excited for all of this. I want to have stories behind each to like maybe the advice column will be longer because the magazine is doing a special edition of this relationship advice column because it’s close to Valentine’s Day or something. The Shel Silverstein book could be inspired by the increase in bullying and abusive relationships in the youth. I am really going to allow myself to get creative but stay on topic, so I’m excited. We’ll see how it goes.
It is really refreshing for me to read how excited you are about this Writing Project. Your topic is really interesting and I think is going to relate really well to your genres. The Silverstein books are a great idea because they are pretty recognized by most people. I'm curious as to whether you are going to be doing a whole book or just a poem within a book. I love your advice column idea, especially the one on how to properly communicate with your partner. It truly relates well to the academic article. I agree with you on having many different routes and also being able to easily get off topic with all of the options. You have to remember to zero in on your main idea about the genre to make it easier. Your topic is interesting and you seem like you are going to have a lot of fun with this, which is really great and will probably turn out great genre transformations.
ReplyDeleteSo. I love your idea for WP3. The topic is something that can be relative to people our age, yet you can still turn it into something for children or adults. Your idea for the Shel Silverstein poems is great, because I know how much you like his poetry so you’ll do an excellent job recreating it to fit your genre. I also love the way your incorporating the article into the poetry, using the information from the experiment itself as the poetry. My only concern is your worry about the art, don’t get too caught up on the artwork portion because not everyone can draw (including myself). Don’t lose out on the important aspects of the poetry genre because of the art. I also like your idea for the adult genre, that’s one I haven’t heard yet. I think the way your incorporating the topic of the article into the advice column is GENIUS. That’s something a parent would most likely actually struggle with, so I like that the correlation between your article and genre would be something realistic.
ReplyDeleteI understand your lack of artistic ability because I have the same problem! I did ask Zack about this in class and he said that it was cool to trace stuff or ask artistically inclined friends to draw for you, so you could do that! Oh and I want to commend you on your choice of article because thats a really interesting topic (at least to me)! I think the topic also works perfectly with an advice column and that wasn't a genre I remember talking about in class so props to you for coming up with it! I think you’re gonna knock this one outta the park, especially because you're so enthusiastic about it! Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI can tell that you are obviously very excited for this WP3, and you should be because it's a really cool idea. Getting inspiration from Shel Silverstein's doodles is going to be really cool. I like your topic a lot, I think that you will definitely be able to grab anyone's attention with your own doodles--which I feel like you will do fine at--and accomplish the goal of aiming it towards the younger generation. For your plan about the older generation I can tell you're still a little bit iffy (or maybe just not as excited for) on the whole advice column section, but I feel like you can pull it off amazingly. You were asking about what to do your column on, and I think your idea of parents who have their adolescent children and are dealing with their friendship/relationship conflicts is a great idea. Many parents often look for ways to connect with their children and I think the idea of an advice column is a great way to reach out towards that audience.
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ReplyDeleteThe Shel Silversteen idea is beautiful. That’s a super-unique sub-genre (of children’s books), and I bet you’ll nail. By mentioning “three categories of personalities discussed: overcontrollers, under-controllers, and resilients” it sounds like you’re keeping in mind that stay-faithful-to-the-original-genre idea that’s essential for an effective WP3. As far as worrying about the drawings, well… use a pencil? Maybe ask a buddy to lend you his/her skills? Do it to the best of your abilities? Maybe even trace some of his images and get a feel for his artistic “moves”—how/when he uses hard lines, soft curves, squiggles, landscapes, noses, etc. ☺
An advice column also works—you’re 2/2, woo hoo! Just make sure to situate it in a specific publication, for a specific audience, with certain goals (of the writer) in mind, etc. Think rhetorically, and you’ll be golden!
Z