Yihui Wang

Professor Masha Fedorova

Writing 2

05/26/2019

Guide to Become a Better Soccer Player (Final Draft)

Translate papers/essays into a guide: https://yihuiwang1.wixsite.com/website

Preparation:

1. Soccer balls

2. A soccer field covered by natural grass.

3. Comfortable soccer shoes

4. Training poles (8 or more)

5. Gates (2 or more)

6. Friends/ Opponents (Optional)

7. Computer and Internet

8. Food and Drinks

Step1: Devoting Time to Practice and Training

Most of us MFor most of us, we are not as talented as those professional soccer players.

Yet, an old Chinese saying points that: “Diligence is the means by which one makes up for

one's dullness.” Although we may not have enough potential with those professional players,

we can still reach the same achievements as they did through our harsh exercise. we might

lose a little bit at the beginning, we can make much more scientific efforts to fulfill the lack

of intelligence. At first, we can make a specific schedule which includes all the practices we Commented [MOU1]: I am not sure what you mean.
I think that you mean that while it is hard to
train in the beginning, it will become easier
need to do every day. For example, on Monday we can improve our shooting skills, and then with more practice. Am I correct?
on the next day, you we can try towill practice more about passing. After the schedule is

completed completing, we must execute those instructions every day.;. Wwe cannot relax any

single daysat all without having trainingand should train every day. We should not rest for

any unacceptable reasons, and keep training every day. If we have one day off, we will fall

into this sense of relaxation, and we will never follow the instructions dedicatedly as we did

before having rested. One of the greatest Chinese writers, Xun Lu, pointed out that “Talent Commented [MOU2]: I learn a lot from your
essays. This is a beautiful message.
determines the upper limit, but your efforts determine the lower limit.” When we put enough

efforts into work on something, even though we do not have extraordinary talents, we can

still complete the high-level achievements achieve a lot in playing soccer than like those genii

who do not pay many efforts on training. Even though we do not as talented as those genii Commented [MOU3]: I know what you mean but I
would cut this phrase. It does not add a lot to
who are excellent at playing soccer since their younghood, we could still pay enough efforts your narrative.

to get those seemed supreme achievements.

Step 2: Healthy Body Exercise

To become a soccer athlete, we need to achieve an essential requirement:, having a healthy

and robust body not only for the legs but for all of the parts on your body. When playing soccer,

we need to have high explosive power, offered by your leg muscles. We need great agility and

balance provided by your waist and abdomen. We also have to control greatbe strengthstrong,

and all of the and to be able to engage all muscles do this on yourin your body. As a result,

exercise should be donewe should exercise every day. In addition, maintaining a healthy diet

is another significantsignificant point for us. When playing a match, most of us would consume

1500 to 3000 calories, so we need proper meals every day to help us containing maintainour

body health. It is better for us to have more colorful fruits and vegetables, or some meat, like

chicken or beef, but with as less fried food as we can. Moreover, the water supply must be

sufficient. Soccer playing will consume lots of water inside our bodies; to keep healthy, we

need to prepare lots of water at room temperature before doing exercise.

Step 3: Use Your Brain on the Field

Sometimes we do not understand the key points provided by our coaches coaches provides

essential suggestions, but we could not entirely understand all of those points., and a At this

time, we need to find some professional players’ videos. We can carefully observe their

performance on the field and analyze why they act like that. Then find out their advantages

that we can gain experiences and improve ourselves. In addition, when playing soccer, we

need to use our brain to analyze the possible next-step action. For example, when your

teammate gets the ball, you can predict that he will pass toward to where and begin to

accelerate to the space in that direction, which could help your teammate to create more

passing choices.

Step 4: Play More with Your Teammates!

As we all know, soccer is a team-playing game. Even though you have the greatest player

in the world, you can not win all of the championships if other members are not qualified

enough If you are the greatest soccer player in the world, but your teammates are not able to

rival with other high-level players, you cannot win all of the championships by your own

efforts. Thus, playing more with teammates is essential; when matching on the ground, a kind

of trustiness and tastiness will automatically form. It will help your team to become the most

fabulous team, and you will become a better player as well.

An analysis to the translation:

Becoming an athlete is a dream for every young boy. When looking at those glorious

players standing on the podium, wearing the flags of their countries, most of us must imagine

ourselves standing there. I was one of those boys dreaming about this. I sometimes imagined

that I could become the best soccer player in the world and help my country to win the World

Cup championship. Who does not want to become the a hero of for his country? However,

because of the lack of talent, patience, and because of the risks involved in becoming a

professional soccer player, I gave up my dream when I was at primary school. However,

Tthis abandonment decision becomes is one of the most regretted things that I regret most

later in my life. As a result, I have always dreamt of guiding the teenagers to make their

dreams come true. As early asIf they read my guide, they will have more chances to become

a professional soccer player.

ThusTo begin my translation, I found some papers or essays written by expertise experts

in soccer training. However, the articles are provided to those specialists; they are usually

long and less efficient to read, so it is hard for teenagers to understand and spend time on that,

especially for those who are not good at explicit training pieces of knowledge. Therefore, I

translated their papers to a kind of guide, which is like the summary ofsummarizes processes

of cooking but changing the methods of cooking intosteps that you need to follow to develop

skills of trainingyour soccer playing., and the guide might be a much more acceptable writing

genre to those teens. In this guide, I summarize the context in of those papers and list them as

four steps; each of them contains one of the most critical experience to become a better

soccer player. That makes the boring and tedious training methods tidier, and I believe

teenagers would prefer to look at a special guide more than reading essays. Besides, this

unique writing genre is neoteric so that it might be more attractive to teens.

 After completing my paper guide, I found that the paper guide might also be inconvenient

for my audiences because they could not directly detect the primary sources I cited. .

However, Therefore, they may lose their chances to they could not become a better soccer

player if they only get the information I listed on my brief guide. To solve this problem, I

created a website where I can put the links to the related sources and examples next to each Commented [MOU4]: Wonderful! This was such a
great idea!
part of my guide. If they want to develop more in this aspect, they he only needs to click on

the buttons, and the primary sources will be shown to him. Besides, the website guide can be

more obvious is more clear for my audience to read and understand compared with the paper

guide, because different colors separate the parts of the guide, and this kind of color

difference could concentrate our views.

When doing this translation, I made a summary that excluded most of the proper nouns,

and tried to use the most concise easily understandable way to paraphrase those. For

example, in the article “My Exercise Training Program Essay,” the author clearly introduces

how to make each part of your muscles to be stronger. introduces the methods for training

each part’ muscles explicitly. (123HelpMe) Thus, the article contains lots of unusual names

of the body muscles; therefore, most of the teenagers would not be, which is not familiar to

with those teenagers, and keep this sense of unfamiliar would bring them away from reading

the entire whole paper. As a result, I only pointed out the training methods for the most basic

muscles for playing soccer, and I put a link in the guide. If the audience has interests in

developing their muscles, they can click on the button and directly go to the original essay to

explore more about muscle training. Even though this exclusion reduces some depths of the

knowledge in the genre translation, the readability of the new guide increases. has been raised

a lot. This change will not make my readers feel troublesome; instead, it would attract views

viewers because it looks much more concise compared with the original essays. I believe this

reduction will be beneficial to my guide and make it more popular among teenagers.
 Not only making the reduction, but I also added my opinion to the experience mentioned

by those specialists. Although I am not some professional soccer player, I could give the

teenagers my personal experience with training as a typical soccer lover. For instance, about

the example to practice dribbling, I used my method which is not mentioned by “The Basic

Soccer Fundamentals Essay,” because I believe that the professional training methods are too

abstruse to use in the teenager’s daily training.the methods introduced by the papers are

difficult enough to understand for my audiences. If teenagers cannot understand the processes

it states, they will not continue their reading, and the paper will lose its their usefulness.

However, my example is more closed to those teenagers, and they can even complete achieve

my training methods exercise when they are playing alone. It might be more suitable for the

entry level soccer players to practice rather than the methods mentioned in the essay.

Making During this translation, I have encountered lots of troubles. The first one would be

the topic choice. This Writing Project 3 is a hard project because the sources are always case-

hardened. Therefore, if we want to translate them into another entirely different genre but

keep the same contents, we need to find flexible sources that could fit into lots of types of

writing. As a result, due to my interests in intimacy with soccer playing and my soccer young

dream I introduced previously, I chose to translate soccer training essays into a new genre.

Then, the next huge problem was the new genre choice for this topic. I got heard my Commented [MOU5]: New paragraph

suggestions from my friends, and one of them offered a guide for to me. It is a unique writing

style, and it is also the first time I contact with it, so it triggered my endless curiosity. To

further understand this genre, I searched for lots of standard guides online and found out that

this writing style type of writing has lots of special features. For example, all of the guides

have short titles, expressing the main contents most crucial subjects that will be introduced in

the content of the guides inside the titles. Besides, the word choice in those guides are

extremely concise; the authors do not add many more adjectives to dress too much on their
subjects. And most of those have a subtitle for each main part to make their audiences

understand more clearly about the thesis of this part. This kind of information introduction

achieved my ideal writing style perfectly. And due to the article “Reading Games”,

introduction is the most important part of an essay, because it is the first thing we look at

during reading.(Karen, 216). This is in agreement agrees with my goals to the genre Commented [MOU6]: Citation?

translation. Thus, I decided to translate the formal essays and papers to this easily

understandable writing style. Furthermore, according to McCloud’s comic, when doing genre

translation, we have to make the “choice of frame”; that means, we need to change our point

of views during the genre translation. (McCloud, 4) In my brief guide, I turned the second-

person description in the papers into the first-person point of view, which could bring more

sense of familiarity to my audience.

After completing this genre translation, I find that this is the harshest writing project in

this writing 2 course I have ever seen. To finish this project, we need to master both of the

essences critical points of those two writing genres, and we also need to have to add our

thoughts into the translated type to make it different from the original sources. It is a hard job

because if adding something new, we would have to break up the original structure created by

the professional writers. Thus, the skills of transitions we learned and discussed in the class

become essential. Besides, there are some constraints for my new, translated genre, which

restrict my word choice. For example, because of the unique style for my writing project is

the guide, I could not put too much context inside, or it would become another piece of the

essay. Thus, I decided to make a summary of the contents of the primary sources and

separated them into four main parts, which looks more likely to a guide to teenagers and

could attract more potential readers. In addition, I made have to make an exclusive checklist

of “ingredients” to my guide, which is something we need to prepare for the process to

become a better soccer player. This could clearly remind my audiences recognize the
requisites.

To sum up, in this genre translation, I found some essays and papers about the methods to

improve our abilities to play soccer and translated them into two kinds of guides: a paper

guide and a website guide. I hope I could complete a perfect guide, which contains more

sources about the methods to become a better soccer player, in the future, and all I hope more

teenagers will get benefits from my guide and continue their soccer dream.

Work Cited

“Essay on Effective Ways to Kick a Soccer Ball.” Essay on Effective Ways to Kick a Soccer

Ball -- Biomechanics of Soccer, www.123helpme.com/effective-ways-to-kick-a-soccer-ball-

preview.asp?

“What Are the Fundamental Skills in Soccer?” LIVESTRONG.COM, Leaf Group,

www.livestrong.com/article/340331-what-are-the-fundamental-skills-in-soccer/.

“My Exercise Training Program Essay.” My Exercise Training Program Essay -- Muscles,

Overload, Methods, www.123helpme.com/my-exercise-training-program-preview.asp?

Scott McCloud, “Writing with Pictures,” Writing Spaces: Reading on Writing. (2006)

Karen Rosenberg, “Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources,” Writing
Spaces： Reading on Writing. (2011)