My I-Search topic was on multigenre writing. Overall, I found it to be something I think will be very useful to use in a class. I also found it overwhelming as well. The multigenre paper allows students to be more creative than just a normal research project. Also as a teacher you can incorporate multiple many lessons to help the students create one big writing assignment.
Depending on what level you are teaching at, you could start out by teaching the students about the different genres and even bring up aspects in their lives that they not consider as genres such as, graffiti, billboards, or even restaurant menus. A teacher could also incorporate the importance of properly researching a topic as well as work with students on writing from different prospectives.
Basically what a multigenre paper looks like for any level is that it is made up of a bunch of short works written by a student. The works must convey a unified message. If a teacher where to use this type of writing assignment in their class it would be cool to tie in GLE’s for writing and I think that it could be used to help students prepare for the MAP in a non traditional way.
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Although I am pretty unfamiliar with a multi-genre paper, I think I like the idea. Did you see an examples and what they would look like?
I did if you get a chance look at Tom Ramano's book Blending Genre, Altering Style Writing Multigenre Papers. He has examples from Grad Students to Middle School Students. They used poetry, narratives based on research, pictures were just a few things that I saw. It wasn't like a 5 page research paper. It was a bunch of small assignments with different perspectives.
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