{"id":3694,"date":"2013-03-21T16:46:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T21:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2013-03-21T16:53:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T21:53:09","slug":"twinkies-for-technical-writers-and-kids-rapped-up-in-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/2013\/03\/21\/twinkies-for-technical-writers-and-kids-rapped-up-in-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Twinkies&#8217; for Technical Writers, and Kids Rapped Up in Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is only for kids in K-12 and their teachers, but it&#8217;s about, you might say, a form of technical writing, rap music. Turns out that <em>The New York Times<\/em> Learning Network has been holding an annual rap music-writing contest, and the 2012 winners <a href=\"http:\/\/learning.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/24\/student-contest-winners-the-2012-year-in-rap\/\">were recently announced<\/a>. We figure there will be another rap contest for 2013, so check for a <em>Times&#8217;<\/em> listing around next November. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Flocabulary, &#8220;an online learning platform that features educational songs, videos and resources for K-12,&#8221; has supplied a <a href=\"http:\/\/learning.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/29\/student-contest-write-a-rap-about-the-news-of-2012\/#lessonplan\">lesson plan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com\/pdfs\/nytimesrubric.pdf\">rubric<\/a> for helping teachers guide their students &#8220;through the rap-writing process.&#8221; (These are from last year&#8217;s contest, but we doubt the methodology is changing all that much.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/20TWIN_SPAN-LN-blog480-v2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20TWIN_SPAN-LN-blog480-v2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3700\" \/>There&#8217;s a lot more scope, of course, in writing rap lyrics than technical procedures. The Times received 634 entries from 1,104 students, many of them participating in groups. &#8220;Many students mourned the possible loss of the Twinkie in their raps about the news of 2012,&#8221; <em>The Times<\/em> advises. Which led us to check on what actually happened there, and the buyers of the &#8220;snack cake&#8221; portion of the bankrupt Hostess Brands, Apollo Group Management and Metropoulos &#038; Co., are aiming to have Twinkies back on the shelves <a href=\"http:\/\/business.time.com\/2013\/03\/21\/how-do-you-revive-twinkies-a-qa-with-the-new-owners-the-metropoulous-brothers\/\">by this summer<\/a>. Something more to sing (chant?) about. <\/p>\n<p>So spend the rest of 2013 burnishing up your rhythm and rhyming for this year&#8217;s rap music contest. You can have the staccato rhythms and would-be lyrics bouncing around in your head as you tour the plant on more pedestrian writing assignments. \u2013 <em>Doug Bedell<\/em>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is only for kids in K-12 and their teachers, but it&#8217;s about, you might say, a form of technical writing, rap music. Turns out that The New York Times Learning Network has been holding an annual rap music-writing contest, and the 2012 winners were recently announced. 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