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English homework help. Multigenre Project
EN101O Fall 2019 Dr. Walter
 
A Multigenre Project (MGP) presents multiple, even conflicting, perspectives on a topic in order to provide a rich context and present an aesthetically appealing product for an audience. Your MGP should reflect the following:
A focus: You should not only include documents that relate to a general topic, but you should ensure that the documents work towards a claim you are making about the topic.
A coherent organization/your entire MGP should be presented in an umbrella genre that best fits your purpose. You should create and organize documents in order to lead readers through the project, to help them understand your focus and purpose. Coherent organization will come out of the umbrella genre you choose for the project. For example, creating a magazine as the umbrella genre that includes articles, images, advertisements, etc. with one focus will provide cohesion to the project. Examples of how you might “package” the MGP include a CD, a scrapbook, a photo album, a patient file, an employee handbook, a manual, a newspaper, a magazine, a website—the options are endless! Just be sure to provide a table of contents (TOC) that offers an overview of and title for each document.
Look at some of the examples posted on D2L for concrete depictions of how this can work.
The Multigenre Project includes at least 8 documents (including an Introduction, Table of Contents, 5 documents of different genres (not including your Introduction), and a works cited page) that offer a sustained argument about your chosen issue. By creating documents in different genres (e.g., editorials, feature stories, brochures, short fiction, charts, scripts, etc.), you learn to write for multiple audiences, multiple (rhetorical) purposes, and multiple forums. All documents/text must be original work you create for the MGP.
Your Introduction serves as a guide to readers, helping them understand the issue you are addressing, offering insight about why you chose the genres you chose, etc. The introduction is your chance to help readers understand why this topic is important, how they should “read” your documents, etc. The introduction may be written as a letter to readers, a magazine article, an editorial, etc.
The bulk of your MGP will be the five documents, each representing a different genre, that helps persuade your audience(s) to your point of view. Aim for a good balance of genres, and be sure at least three of your documents directly use the sources you have gathered from your research. By writing a brochure that utilizes your research sources, a chart or other visual, a story drawing from the information you have gathered, a quiz based on researched sources, etc.—by approaching your research findings in a creative way, your MGP helps an audience understand many different perspectives about your topic.  Some of the documents you will include may be more time-intensive than others.  But the 5 documents that make up the body of your MGP should show your knowledge, creativity, and ability to persuade your audience(s) toward your main claim/thesis.
The MGP should conclude with a Works Cited page.  As you cite sources for each document, your citation approach should be appropriate for each genre. It is a rare ghost story, for example, that includes parenthetical citation practices! But there are creative ways to ensure that you a) give credit to the source from which you draw information (e.g., discussing that information in your introduction, using endnotes/acknowledgment pages, etc.), and b) establish your credibility as a writer who has conducted significant research to support your opinion. Works Cited pages must be in MLA format.
Restrictions: PowerPoints or other forms of “traditional” presentations are not allowed as part of your MGP. Your MGP must be self-contained in physical or digital format as one cohesive work.
Research: For this project you are required to use four outside sources. Two of these must be academic journal articles. For any web source you use, you must complete the worksheet on the CRAAP test (posted on D2L) and turn that in with your first draft.
Annotated Bibliography: While you are required to use four sources in the MGP, you will need to look at a minimum of six sources for the Annotated Bibliography. An annotated bibliography looks much like a Works Cited but has a paragraph following each entry that tells the reader the topic of the source, its main claim/thesis, and how you will use the source, specifically, in your project. These paragraphs are known as annotations. Each annotation should be a minimum of four sentences. See D2L for examples of annotated bibliographies.
Proposal: Begin with an informal proposal for research. In this proposal, you have an opportunity to think-in-writing about your plans for your multigenre research. This is an informal piece of writing about your research interests, the questions guiding those interests, and the potential genre documents you would like to produce. I will then give you feedback and suggestions about your ideas and guide you in the right direction for research. Your proposal should include: a list of 5 questions that might guide your research, an explanation of WHY you are interested in this topic, ideas about primary and secondary sources that might be useful. Ideas about genres you are thinking about producing for your project (see list of genres).
Due Dates:
Nov. 11: Proposal, Annotated Bibliography, and CRAAP Test handout.
Nov. 22: Drafts of 2-5genres, Introduction, and Table of Contents for project. Including your Works Cited will be beneficial to you as well but not required. If any web sources have been changed or added, a new CRAAP test handout is required.
Dec. 6: Complete Multigenre Project Final Drafts due at the beginning of class. Presentation to class.
 

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