Your first-year composition instructors may ask you to create a work in one genre or medium, such as a print-based research project, and translate it to another type of writing, such as a multimedia presentation, podcast, or scrapbook. Such translations may not be as straightforward as they seem. Just as filmmakers may omit content, streamline plot, and conflate characters when they create a movie version of a book, developing a solid thesis and supporting it effectively may require different strategies if you are turning a paper-based work into a video, a presentation, or some digital form.

Listen to student Shuqiao Song as she talks about decisions she made in turning a print essay into a presentation for a live audience:

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