I found the article interesting for a number of reasons. First, the location of Italy made the article a little more appealing to me because I am from Italy and familiar with the various regions and people that are there. Secondly, I have cousins in my family that have autism and I because of my interest in the human mind I have always had a particular fondness for these cousins. However I am not extremely well-knowledged with the specifics of autism so I thought the article would be interesting to read.
The intended audience of the article is for parents and doctors in an effort to make a new establishment that could provide services and guidance for families with autistic children. I know that I want/need to change the genre to appeal to a younger and older audience, and that is where I get a little confused on what I'm doing. I want to change the article to make it tailored for other children that DON'T have autism, basically like an explanation of autism that will help children be more understanding and supportive of autistic kids. For the older audience, I want to transform the information in the article to be tailored to expecting parents, so that they can be educated, prepared, and conscious of the signs and available steps to deal with a child that has autism.
For the kids version of my paper, I am going to focus on using a simple tone so that children could easily follow. I realize that it is not an interesting subject to a lot of children, so I would like to include some humor and possibly some kind of images so that the read is more entertaining. If I don't do this, I assume that most children that read it will just want to quit reading the paper halfway through.
For the adult version, I know that I will have a more interested audience because parents who are expecting usually go insane trying to learn as much about how to raise a child as possible. This helps me as a writer. I am going to include stats from the scholarly article that I think parents would find interesting, and I am going to talk about the importance of recognizing signs of autism and getting the right kind of help as early as possible.
I hope that with my plan, I will be able to make a paper that will introduce autism in a fun but also educational manner, while the other paper will hopefully be an informative piece that can help parents.
I really like this idea and I think you have a detailed layout set up to have two very successful transformations. I really love that you are able to relate this topic to people in your own life. I believe that truly passionate writers write about things close to their own hearts, and this will definitely help you capture your readers' attention.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I have a few questions. What about the topic exactly are you going to discuss in your younger version? Will you tell them honestly or will you simplify it even more? Will it be humorous or informative? Just curious, because the parents reading them to their kids will need to be sure it is appropriate for the intended audience. Overall great idea and I think once fully developed your Ideas will be successful.
I too really like the fact that you decided to choose an article that you can personally relate to. I think this would definitely make the WP easier for you to write, since you already have a background in the area. You did a good job describing how you would translate the article into something more suitable for the older and younger audiences and the reasons behind your thinking/decisions. However I think it would be nice if you mentioned the genres you would translate your article into (kids' books, newspapers, etc) and then defined the conventions of those genres and why they would serve a good purpose.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what Sydnee and Margarita said above in that I think that once you get a more concrete idea of what genres you will use, your writing project should be great since it's so personal to you. I really like your set-up so far because I think you chose the specific audiences well. By this, I mean that writing articles that are meant to inform both children and parents on how to better understand and support autistic kids is a really good idea. For the genres I would probably do something like a children's book for the younger audience and maybe a pamphlet for the older audience.
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