IMRaD Report vs. Research Paper

The purpose of the IMRaD report is to write a paper over a research experiment. You must conduct a research experiment or poll and add the data to the paper. You also need to interview two or three people, and ask about their beliefs of the topic. Also the report is structured differently. First you need to write an abstract. Then write the introduction, methods, results, and discussion. A works cited and appendix are optional for this assignment.
This assignment is different than the research paper. The structures are completely different because for the IMRaD, you have sections and subheadings. In the research paper, you have a basic structure for an argumentative paper. For this assignment, you need to do an experiment and interview people. In the research paper you didn't, it only required you to find academic and nonacademic sources.

Reflection on Remediation Assignement

For this assignment, I had to translate my research paper into a different medium. I chose to make a PowerPoint. My presentation was on whether or not college athletes should be paid. This assignment was easier than the previous ones, but still required work and brought a few challenges.
The purpose of my remediation project was to translate my argument into a new medium. The PowerPoint is a great way of displaying my argument to the audience. It has few texts and more visuals like pictures and a video so it can be more understandable and interesting. I feel like my remediation was great because it clearly shows my argument.
My target audience did not change when doing this project. The audience for this could be anyone interested in sports. To help make the PowerPoint more pleasing to my audience I added pictures with athletes and a video.
There were some differences between the research paper and the PowerPoint. The research paper was much harder to do because I had to find many credible sources and cite them. It also took me a while to do. I had to find sources, make an outline, and then type the paper. The PowerPoint was easier because I used the information form my paper to construct it. All I had to do was find pictures and a video. Adding the voice over was difficult to do but overall this project was easier than the paper.

Multimedia for Translation Assignment

I plan on doing a Power Point presentation for this assignment. I'm doing this because I think it's the best way to show the audience my argument.  Multimodal text I can use are videos, pictures, articles, and graphs. 

Textual elements that could be useful are pictures and videos. I already found a video that talks about my argument so that will be useful. Pictures will go along with my argument, and will give the audience a visual. For example if I'm talking about a statistic, a bar or line graph would be helpful. 

Remediation

Remediation is taking a text and translating it into a new medium. An example of this is taking a book and turning it into a movie. In the article "Remediation", Caitlin Mullen describes remediation in a couple different ways. The definition she gave for it was "the blending of old and new media". The example she gave was the comic strip of the penguins. In this, there's a hand drawn penguin and a realistic penguin. Her example perfectly shows what remediation is since the mediums blended together.
There are a few possible ways of using remediation for my research paper. My research paper was about college athletes and whether or not they should be paid. So a remediation I could do is turn my paper into an article for a sports magazine or newspaper. Another idea could be making a Power Point on my topic to give my audience a visual. I could also write a blog about the topic from my research paper.

APA Works Cited

References

Bullock, R., Goggin, M.D., Weinberg, F. (2013). The Norton Field to Writing 3^rd Edition. New York: W.W. Norton and Company.

Martins, S. D.  (Ed.). (2015). Transnational Writing Program Administration. Boulder, Colorado. Utah State University Press.

Corbett, S. (2015, March 10). Text-to-Visual-Remediation. Writing Commons. Retrieved from writingcommoms.org.

Baker, P. (2015, March 9). G.O.P. Senators’ Letter to Iran About Nuclear Deal Angers White House. New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com

N.A. (2015, March 10). Emergency Notification. University of Louisville. Retrieved from louisville.edu.

Lu, M. (1991). REDEFINING THE LEGACY OF MINA SHAUGHNESSY: A CRITIQUE OF THE POLITICS OF LINGUISTIC INNOCENCE. Vol. 10. 26-40.

My partner Brian Radcliff did the MLA citations. 

Reflection on Research Paper

I wrote my research paper on whether college athletes should be paid or not. I chose this topic because it’s something I’m interested in and I wanted to learn more about it. And since it has to deal with sports, the topic is relevant to my major of Exercise Science.

Challenges I faced while writing this research paper were finding credible academic sources. It was easy to find nonacademic sources because this is a much discussed issue among the sports world, but finding scholarly articles on this was difficult. I ended up finding a few academic articles on whether college athletes should be paid or not on a database.

Writing a research paper was not an easy task and it taught me many things. I learned how to argue a topic by explaining points from both perspectives. Instead of saying why one side is good and the other is bad, I had to show both sides advantages. This is different because I’ve never written a paper like this. Usually I make a stance for my argument and say why it should happen or why it’s beneficial. But I learned how to write from multiple viewpoints so my argument isn’t opinionated.

This research paper has similarities and differences with the first major assignment. The first paper was an informational paper about how writing is used in our major, and getting academic and nonacademic sources and two interviews. This paper I didn’t need to get interviews, only sources. The structures of both papers needed a thesis and conclusion. The research paper was argumentative so in the body paragraphs, you would include both perspectives instead of one.