Help me please...?

Question

I need a good piece of text to change into another type of text, eg

A diary entry into a Newspaper report...
The diary of Anne Frank into a Newspaper report - but thats not original...

anything like that
I just cant think of a good piece of text, i mean, it could be ANYTHING, and it can be turned into ANYTHING!!!

Please, im really stressing about this.

I want it to be original because it would get me better marks, and it HAS to be an official text (eg, a published book, newspaper column etc) which i then change into something else...

Oops! Wrong catagory

Answer 1

This is polls and surveys. Try posting in another catagory.

Answer 2

What you can always do is turn a book/newspaper article/comic book into a short screenplay in dialogue format..

You can take one of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and turn it into a screenplay format or perhaps a newspaper article. For example.. How the Leopard Got His Spots
How the Rhinocerous Got His Skin

But for something completely original to turn into somethng (and I don't know who much time you have). There is a wonderful book that is OVERLOOKED by everyone and it should be made into a screenplay because it would make a powerful, powerful movie. It's called
Incidents In The Life of A Slave Girl - Linda Brent. I would make this book your project.

Here is what it says on the back of the Book.
This authentic account was originaly published in 1861 by Linda Brent, just before the Civil War began. In turht, the actual events took place many years before, and the story's author was Harriet Jacobs, who felt compelled to write under a pseudonym and decades after the fact to protect those who loved and shielded her. The account is harrowing in its portrayal of Jacob's life as a female slave - the degradatioin and sexual oppression, her master's determinatrion to make her his concubine, his jealous wife, the white man who fathered her children - but there is also grace and salvation in the form of Jacob's grandmother, who hid her in a tiny garret for seven years, and the blacks and whites who secured Jacobs's eventual passage north and made it possible to tell her story.
A difficult, gripping personal account of U.S. history and the major antebellum autobiography of an African-American woman, readers everwhere should be grateful that stores such as Jacobs's survive.
LINDA BRENT (Harriet Jacobs) was born a slave in North Caroline around 1813 and became a fugitive in the 1830s. Although her life as a slave in the American south and her fugitive years in the northeast are well-documented, little is know ofher later life. She died in 1897.

Answer 3

And this is hunger:
beans & rice
beans & rice.
A pang for a meal. You're broke.
Sweet butter on challah. In the eighties,
you had money, everybody did
until the stock market crash
when the lucky got richer.
Spiced chicken on flat wheat,
the chef at Kebabish
cooking for you. An immigrant with no papers
cooking just for you.
The drizzle & snap of oil on fire,
cumin bursting into pelao, biryani.
You rave, a deported illegal
wandering into the night air
sniffing the streets for gravy.
You are nearly crazy with the hint of it.
Keep walking.
It is Main Street & you're a citizen.
Remember the ceremony
& all the coca-cola & hot dogs afterwards?
Or try to imagine your old life.
Being a saleslady in Virginia
is far preferable
to the old way of life
that you lived when you were a queen
called Rani in your native country & the servants
fanned you night & day when you
snapped your fingers.

Answer 4

How about turning Spike Milligan's poem "Have A Nice Day" into a newspaper report. You could include references to queues at doctors, inefficient NHS - loads of things like that. The poem is in the link below and almost guaranteed to be an original approach!!

Answer 5

Ooo I just finished school and I got an A on my text transformation... I turned "The Hobbit" into the "Diary of Bilbo Baggins".

I wouldn't do just anything someone tells you or suggests. Do somethings to do with something you enjoy, that way you will enjoy doing your work more and are thus more likely to get a better grade.

So.. As you can see, I turned my favorite book into something. How about you doing your favorite book or poem?

My friend turned Charlies Chocolate Factory into a horror!

Answer 6

Lord of the Flies...turned into a newspaper report?
Def not very original. Some one has re-written lord of the flies with girls. When I was at school I rewrote a Beatles song into a news article (read it out like it was on 6 o'clock news.) Bet that doesnt help you a whole lot!

Answer 7

Why not look at something you know, a book you like, or song lyrics. Its always easier if its something you know well or enjoy. Otherwise look at foreign newspapers for inspiration, not many people will probably bother doing that. for example if you livein the states look at british newspapers or sites, if you live in uk look at american newspapers
bbc.co.uk as all sorts of interest stuff and help. historical and up to date. Great site for any student.

Answer 8

ms.t i find it interesting that you chose, out of a billion possibilities, the diary of anne frank, as an example. just an observation. if you want to raise a few eyebrows for your obvious sophistication and brilliance, try the book *gnosis of the cosmic christ*, this will be informative to the open minded and very annoying to christian fundamentalists, which i always enjoy seeing. or yet further afield, *the cipher of genesis* by carlos suares. a book along "new" kabala lines. certainly not boring. good luck! :-)

Answer 9

Try turning Pepys diary description of Great Fire of London 1666 into contemporary redtop style disaster report

Answer 10

You should do what Tony Blair and his spin doctor Alistaire Campbell did: plagiarise and doctor text downloaded from the internet to make outrageous ridiculous reports that no intellegent rational human would believe such as a former western ally puppet dictator has WMDs and disarming them, not gaining control of oil and pushing up the share price of Halliburton, is the real reason to slaughter millions of innocent men, women, children and babies!

"Iraq: Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation" was a 2003 briefing document for the Blair Labour government that became known as the Dodgy Dossier. It was issued to journalists on 3 February 2003 by Alastair Campbell, Blair's Director of Communications and Strategy, and concerned Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. Together with the earlier September Dossier, these documents were ultimately used by the government to justify its involvement in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.

Channel 4 News coined the term "Dodgy Dossier" when its reporters were made aware of Glen Rangwala's discovery[1] that much of the work had been plagiarised from various unattributed sources. The most notable source was an article by Ibrahim al-Marashi entitled Iraq's Security & Intelligence Network: A Guide & Analysis, [2] which was published in the September 2002 issue of the Middle East Review of International Affairs. [3]

Whole sections of Marashi's writings on "Saddam's Special Security Organisation" were repeated verbatim including typographical errors, while certain amendments were made to strengthen the tone of the alleged findings (eg. "monitoring foreign embassies in Iraq" became "spying on foreign embassies in Iraq", and "aiding opposition groups in hostile regimes" became "supporting terrorist organisations in hostile regimes").

In its opening paragraph the briefing document claimed that it drew "upon a number of sources, including intelligence reports". Before the document's release it had been praised by Tony Blair and Colin Powell as further intelligence and quality research. The day after Channel 4's exposé, Tony Blair's office issued a statement admitting that a mistake was made in not crediting its sources, but did not concede that the quality of the documents's content was affected.

The claims contained in the "September" and "Dodgy" Dossiers were called into question when weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq, and the dossiers were encompassed by House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee inquiry. The Committee subsequently reported that the sources should have been credited, and that the dossier should have been checked by ministers before being released. The dossier had only been reviewed by a group of civil servants operating under Alastair Campbell. The committee stated that the publication was "almost wholly counter-productive" and in the event only served to undermine the credibility of the government's case.

The controversy over the "Dodgy Dossier" was mentioned frequently in the government's conflict with the BBC over the claim in the September Dossier that Iraq could deploy biological weapons within 45 minutes of an order to do so, and the controversy surrounding the death of Doctor David Kelly. Andrew Gilligan, the BBC journalist who wrote a report which claimed that the September Dossier had been deliberately exaggerated, stated before the Hutton Inquiry that recalling the February Dossier had led him to file his report based on his interview with David Kelly without seeking confirmation from other sources.

The dossier became a point of amusement in British politics. In a Prime Minister's Questions conflict with Blair, Michael Howard (then leader of HM Opposition), informed Blair that the conservatives "had a full dossier on him", and "they hadn't even had to sex it up!".

Answer 11

The exorcist
2001 Space Odyssey
The Shinning
Something wicked this way comes
Alive!
Gulag archipelago
Alice in wonderland
Martian Chronicles