How did switching genres from an academic paper to podcast allow you to think a different way about the subject of your paper? How did it allow you to use language differently?

I think I definitely had to think about my subject differently when switching from a paper to a podcast. The biggest obstacle I had to overcome was the change in audience. When writing a paper, I wrote in highly academic and intellectual way so as to sound professional and knowledgable on the subject. However, when creating the podcast, I still had to be knowledgable and professional, while maintaining an informal tone that the everyday person would find interesting, not just my professor. Finding this middle ground was something that was very difficult for me to achieve in my paper. As I look back at the podcast and the paper, I noticed I tried to convey the same message but in different ways. The language I used differed but my main message stayed the same. For example, instead of putting an exclamation point at the end of a sentence, like I did in the paper, I would get louder and bolder to convey the same message, in the podcast. I think the thing that I found the most interesting, and also the most difficult, in the podcast was figuring out how to use emotion, voice, accent, or volume to recreate the message in my paper that was conveyed through syntax, punctuation, or sentence length.