Keeping the Peace is a piece on the flaws of the college
dormitory system that is used to pair up students. Rosemary Counter uses a very
academic piece of writing, and does not utilize humor. It first starts off with
an example of a roommate pairing gone wrong. The roommates that are paired
together have the same things written down on their questionnaires, but when
they meet each other, they are complete opposites. One roommate was incredibly
shy, and would tag along with the other roommate to whatever they went to.
Counter then explains what the problem with the roommate dormitory system is,
along with ideas of why these problems occur. Mainly because of dishonesty on
the questionnaire, and parents also had a big deal to do with it. Counter then
further goes on and gives a couple ways that other universities had adopted in
order to make the roommate pairing process more effective.
To make
“Keeping the Peace” a more children suitable book, I would make it a picture
book. It could have a mother teaching her children about rooming or something.
The word choices in it would be much easier, it would also come with a
I think the topic you picked is really interesting. I'm definitely intrigued. You can use that topic to go in countless directions. The idea of a book would definitely work because there could be a lesson about lying and how it affects the outcome, like the person lied on their roommate questionnaire and they got stuck with the roommate from hell. As for the rest of your post, I'm not sure if my laptop did not fully load your post or if you are not aware that it got cut off. Regardless, it seems as though you are going in the right direction. Best of luck on your assignment!
ReplyDeleteYea, this is a very unique topic. I think somehow your words got cut off a bit. I like how you introduced the subject of the scholarly article that you are using, so that you can make a detailed analysis of how you will manipulate its rhetorical and conventional aspects, to create works from different genres. You most likely discussed these things in the rest of your PB3A (the part that was cut off), but if you haven’t already, it might help to explore the certain conventions that are characteristic of a children’s picture book. Also, one thing that I did that may or may not help your thought process, was consider whether or not the purpose changes between genre and if so, how and why. I think one of the hardest parts of this project is going to be altering the purpose so that it effectively addresses the new audience. Overall I like your idea and wish you luck on this last project!
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ReplyDeleteThis wasn't a thorough PB3A. You summarized the article, which is great, but what I'm really interested in is checking out your ideas/plans for the genre translation. A children's book is a good START, but beyond that, there's no information here.
Also, please know that I want/require you to use a new scholarly article for your WP3. If I recall, you used this article for your WP2.
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