Translated Genre

Students

Students’ reflections on their decision of the genre

“Simplistic genre awareness” ( Driscoll et al., 2019 term)

Research Paper

4

“My main reason for translating an informative article to another article, by changing the audience, was that it now applies to most teenagers rather than using academic terms”.

“Nuanced genre awareness” ( Driscoll et al., 2019 term)

Poem

2

“In my translation, I reworked the rhetorical appeals, vocabulary tone, sentence structure, and syntax, to effectively reach my audience”

“This infographic was extremely helpful to students and provided all the criteria to understand a famous speech that would have taken several minutes to read, and now it takes 2 minutes to summarize it”

“I use pathos as a way to derive emotions while writing the poem”

“Choosing to turn it into a persuasive piece allowed me to really push my point to its extent. It gave me the opportunity to expand the original text a bit and dive deeper into how incredible the album is, which also is more beneficial to my audience, because it gives them a chance to be more persuaded than if they just read the review”.

Podcast

3

Narrative

1

Motivational Speech

2

Infographic

4

Instagram Carousels

2

Persuasive article

1

Speech

1

Total

22 students