The ProjectA multi-genre research project provides you

the opportunity to research a subject of your choice, look at it from a perspective or multiple perspectives, and synthesize your findings in a variety of genre components.

The Structure Your paper will contain the following elements in this order. See page length guidelines below for the minimum length required.

Page 1: Title PagePage 2: Preface/Dear Reader Letter Page 3: Table of ContentsPages 4-13: Multigenre project (Your first section should include exposition in which your thesis is revealed. However, this section does not have to be the entire three pages at once.)Page 14: Works Cited Page

The ComponentsAs stated previously, your research paper will contain both a short traditional research paper, and a collection of alternative genre elements that will also provide insights and understanding into your topic. You will not, however, just be slapping together a series of un-related pieces. Your multi-genre project will include several components as listed below, and it will find its cohesion in a repetend.

The RepetendThe purpose of a repetend is to create unity and coherence in a multigenre piece. It also allows the reader to hear the writer’s voice and have a string that carries through the entire piece. Using a repetend is like using a thesis to tie a traditional research paper together.

The RepetendIdeas for creating a repetend (you may think of something different):

• include the same phrase, sentence, or passage in each genre page as a heading

• or somewhere else in the text.• include a description or design in each piece (written or graphic), placed

strategically for easy recognition • include a running commentary from you, the writer, following or preceding each

genre piece • address a particular narrative perspective or series of perspectives that are related. • have a reoccurring idea or image in each piece. • have a particular argument, point of view, or thesis that is throughout the whole

project.

Multi-Genre Research Components Your multi-genre project must include:

Traditional Research Exposition An analytical, expository, or argumentative essay or a research paper in at least three pages. This should follow a traditional structure and articulate your thesis or main idea. This will use parenthetical documentation (MLA) with the Works Cited Page at the back of the project.

Multi-Genre Research Components (5 different ones from 3 Categories)

The project must also include five elements from three of the following multi-genre categories. Within each category there will be many options of expression, and they are not limited to what I have listed below. If you think of an additional genre that you believe would fit the category, please see me before your proceed. If you would like, you may include more than three categories, and you may even double up (two poems, a photograph, and a blog, for example).

You must reach the minimum length requirement of 7 total pages (if you only have a three page essay/research paper)

Four Alternative Genres • Creative Writing - Poem, Scene, Short Story, Vignette,

Menu, Letter, Memoir, Song, Obituary, Eulogy, etc.• Visual Component - Photographs, Art, Collages, Map

w/legend, Wanted Poster, Cartoon, Chart/Graph, etc.• Non-Fiction - Newspaper article, Biography, History,

Essay, Movie Review, etc. (this is in addition to your research exposition)

• Web 2.0 Genre - Blog, Twitter, Facebook/MySpace Profile, Wiki, PowerPoint, etc. , Voicethread, Website - screen-shots to be included

Brainstorming Your Topic As we enter into this project, you will want to enter into your project with as broad of a view as possible.

In the center of your paper draw a circle and put your topic. At the top of your

paper put your chosen research question.

Brainstorming Your Topic

What ideas do you associate, think about, relate to, or connect to your research

topic?

Draw lines out from your topic bubble to start a mind map of these ideas.

Brainstorming Your Topic

What ideas do you associate, think about, relate to, or connect to your research

topic?

Draw lines out from your topic bubble to start a mind map of these ideas.

Brainstorming Your Topic

Spider web the following to your topic or related ideas.

What people do you associate with your topic or related ideas?

What places do you associate with your topic or related ideas? Cultures?

What music? What visuals (pictures, symbols, images)? What literature? Movies? Food? Events? Time periods?

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