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Genre adaptation: academic→blog, post-mortem→board report, Twitter→docs, sales→engineering spec.
Adapt the provided text from one genre to another while preserving every fact, argument, and emotional beat. Genre is not just vocabulary—it changes pacing, evidence standards, and what the reader trusts. GENRE PAIRS (pick one): - Academic paper → Product launch blog: Replace passive constructions with active voice. Replace citations with customer quotes. Add 'we built X because Y' framing. Shorten paragraphs to 3 sentences max. - Internal post-mortem → Board-level incident report: Strip technical detail to 3 root causes. Add dollar impact. Replace 'we should have' with 'remediation timeline:'. End with executive summary: one chart, one decision. - Twitter thread → Documentation: Expand each tweet into a section heading. Add code examples. Remove emojis, replace with cross-references. Add a table of contents. Expected length: 50-100× original. - Sales email → Engineering spec: Replace benefit language with constraints and interfaces. 'Our solution saves 40%' becomes 'The system processes batch jobs 1.7× faster (p<.01, n=200 trials)'. Add error states. TRANSFORMATION RULES: - If the original has 3+ adjectives per noun, cut to 1. If it has 0, add 1 where it aids comprehension. - If the original uses passive voice >30% of sentences, flip to active for >70%. Academic text especially. - Add genre-appropriate affordances: docs get a quickstart code block, tweets get a takeaway bold, board reports get an appendix. META-REFLECTION: Which transformation was hardest? That reveals the biggest distance between the source genre's assumptions and the target genre's expectations. OUTPUT: Original genre label → target genre label. Adapted piece. Meta-reflection (2-3 sentences).
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