MULTIGENRE RESEARCH:
Making Space
for Student Voice and Choice
Angela Faulhaber
3.10.22
WHAT DO I NOTICE AS A READER?
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR ME
AS A WRITER?
Dear Reader Letter: context; reflect
"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."
IDEA GENERATING
REVISION
PLANT CARES
GENRE STUDY
CELEBRATION
Exploring a variety of possibilities
Focus on revision moves (grammar brushstrokes!)
Choose genres to unpack, study, imitate
Make space to celebrate the publishing.
NARROWING A TOPIC
NARROWING A TOPIC
Malala Yousafzai
Her time recovering in hospital
Starting a school for girls
Writing I Am Malala
Speaking at the UN
MAPPING OUT A MULTIGENRE
Speaking at the UN in 2013 on her 16th birthday
Recipe poem
Birthday card from her dad
Text conversation between attendees
Breakout
INCORPORATING THE RESEARCH IN “NON-RESEARCH-Y” WRITING
INCORPORATING THE RESEARCH IN “NON-RESEARCH-Y” WRITING
INCORPORATING THE RESEARCH IN “NON-RESEARCH-Y” WRITING
RESOURCES
Blending Genre, Altering Style by Tom Romano
Writing Redefined by Shawna Coppola
The Multigenre Paper is great for practicing these cognitive strategies
Book Club Strategies That Would Work for Multigenre Papers