PB3A

           A topic that I thought that could be cool to transform from an academic paper to different genres is the topic of happiness.  Since I almost used happiness as the topic for my WP2 I’ve read plenty on it and know there is a lot that can be said and done with this topic.  For my PB3, I think I am going to use a study or piece that tries to answer “what makes us happy?”.  These articles often mention how it isn’t money or power that make us happy, but rather helping others and being in positive relationships, so I am most likely going to focus on those aspects.

            For the transformation aimed at a group of people older than me, I was thinking I could do a few things.  The first one that I thought would be an interesting transformation would be talking the information and turning it into something like a buzzfeed article.  It would be something like “You wouldn’t believe what makes you happy” or “What makes us happy (its not what you think).”  By doing something like this, I would take the information from the article, like how money or power doesn’t make you happy, list them on their own little slide, and offer commentary on how studies show that these don’t make you happy.  Then I would do the same for the things that do make people happy according to the study.  Something else I could do for the genre geared towards adults is maybe an article in a cosmopolitan magazine or something similar to that.  This article would debunk some of the false ideas of the things that make people happy and suggest ways to be a happier person.

            The genre geared towards younger people proved to be harder to think of ideas for.  Also, I think this transformation will be more difficult.  The first genre I thought I could transform my article to would be a children’s book.  I like this idea because I know it’s feasible, especially with my topic.  To do this, I could make a kids group of friends the different ideas of what makes people happy, and make him/her get along better with the ideas proven to make us happier.  I think this would be cool, but it is also generic, so I’m most likely going to go with something more creative.  Something else I could do is something similar to that poem The Old Man and the Little Boy we looked at in class.  It would be some sort of simple poetic biography with simple pictures around the outside.  This would be similar to something you might find in a child’s room on their wall in fancy writing in a frame.  It would be almost like a piece of life advice or guidance.

            The most difficult part of this project is figuring out what genres I am going to transform my information into, and how I am going to do it.  The tricky part of this is that I’m sure some people younger than me read buzzfeed articles, and I’m sure some adults would love to read a poem about happiness, but I’m using the intended audience so I hope that will be okay.