Our next creative project looms, and I hope you are thinking about an area of interest to research. Choose a topic you really care about. Be thinking about something that relates to your life, your family, your future, or the direction your life will take you. I'll have some examples to share with you, but in the meantime you can be exploring your own ideas.
The cool thing about a multi-genre project is that it allows you to present your findings in many different ways, ways that may reflect a better understanding of your topic. You may include a variety of texts, visual and print. You may use music, art, video as well.
Here is a link to an introduction to the Multi-Genre project created by a teacher at Colorado State University. The opening quote justifies its importance:Stay tuned. We'll be sharing ideas first. You'll have an opportunity to write proposals for this next adventure.http://writing.colostate.edu/gallery/multigenre/introduction.htm"A multigenre paper arises from research, experience, and imagination. It is not an uninterrupted, expository monolog nor a seamless narrative nor a collection of poems. A multigenre paper is composed of many genres and subgenres, each piece self-contained, making a point of its own, yet connected by theme or topic and sometimes by language, images, and content. In addition to many genres, a multigenre paper may also contain many voices, not just the author's. The trick is to make such a paper hang together."~~ (Romano, Blending Genre, Altering Style i-xi)
Today's class should be devoted to pouring through the projects. Go to the link listed on our home page for multi-genre projects and click on Tom Romano's menu where it lists "Multi-Genre papers." There you will find even more project ideas. Just so the rest of us can know, please create your own reflection post by telling us what you found interesting, why, and how that might lead you to your own project. What do you want to research?
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