Name _______________________________________________ Date _________________________________

Homeroom ________________________

Multigenre Research Project

For the next four weeks in class, you will be creating a multigenre research paper. This is
NOT a five-paragraph paper with an introduction, evidence, and conclusion. This is NOT
a paper on a topic that your teachers tell you to write about.
Rather, this is a project in which you get to choose your OWN topic, conduct research on
that topic, and then create a multigenre project that combines your talents to convey a
message to the reader. The multigenre project is one in which you write multiple pieces,
of different genres, that come together to form one product.
Requirements:

You must choose a topic that requires you to conduct research.

Your paper should consist of at least five different genres. You may choose to
write more pieces than that, but at least 5 genres should be represented.

Your project should have some kind of connector that ties it all together: a
repeated genre, a design, a repeated theme or topic, a continuous story, etc.

You will make your project on your own website you create, unless you are given
permission to do it in a different medium.

Your project should consist of:

o Introductory letter to reader: This serves as a guide to your readers.
This letter helps us understand the issue/topic youre addressing, offering us
insight about why you chose the genres you chose, etc. The intro is your
chance to help us understand why this topic is important, how we should
read your documents, etc.
o Table of Contents: This should be listed as its own page; or, if your website
has tabs for each genre document, you do not need to have a separate table
of contents.
o At least 5 genre pieces, with connector: You may have more than 5
documents/written pieces, but you should have at least 5 different genres on
your site.
o End Notes: The end notes are a short paragraph for each of your genre
pieces in which you explain how you came up with the idea for that piece,
what the piece means, and any other explanation you think is important.
o Works Cited page: On this page you will cite all of your sources you used
to create this project. I will teach you how to format this page. SAVE all of
your sources you use!!!

Evaluation:

This project will be assessed as a test grade using the rubric.

You will get to present your project to the class during our EOG Prep unit next
month.

Genre Ideas
Autobiography
Advertisement
Book review

Memo
Memoir
Movie Review

Book jacket
Brochure
Bulletin
Business letter
Campaign speech

Mystery
Newsletter
Newspaper article
Obituary
Photograph must have written

Cartoon/comic strip
Character sketch
Childrens book
Collage (visual or word)
Commandments
Commercial
Contract
Cookbook
Debate
Dialogue
Diary entry
Double-Voice Poem
Editorial
E-mail
Encyclopedia Article
Eulogy
Essay Informative/narrative/persuasive

analysis/supplement
Poem
Police report
Postcard
Questionnaire/survey
Quiz
Radio broadcast
Recipe
Report card
Research report
Restaurant review
Resume
Romance
Science fiction
Sonnet
Schedule/ Things to do list
Sculpture or Painting

Extended Metaphor Poem

show
Eulogy
Facebook or Instagram Page
Fairytale or fable
or TV
Flashback
Flash-forward
Friendly letter
Ghost Story
Graffiti
Graph/chart
Haiku

Script for a play, movie or TV

Sermon
Short story
Short scene from a play, movie,
Song lyrics
Stream-of-consciousness
Talk show interview
Technical manual
Textbook
Text message conversation
Top ten list

Horror
Twitter or Tumblr Feed
Inner monologue showing internal conflicts
Video game
Interview real or imagined
Vignette
Invitation
Wanted Poster
Job description
Warning
Journal entry
Will
Lab report
Limerick
Magazine Article
Map w/ legend
Medical report

Multigenre Research Project Rubric

100 points: Holistic Impact of Paper

100 points: Breakdown of Paper

Genre #1: ______ out of 10 points

Genre #2: ______ out of 10 points

Genre #3: ______ out of 10 points

Genre #4: ______ out of 10 points

Genre #5: ______ out of 10 points

Aesthetics: ____ out of 10 points

Connectors: _______ out of 10 points

Editing: _______ out of 10 points

Introduction and End Notes: _______ out of 10 points

10
Introduction and notes give thorough, enlighten the reader with clear explanation
for all choices made in the paper
9
Intro and end notes are informative and thorough
8
Writer did not give quite enough information in intro and end notes
7
Intro and end notes still leave a lot of questions in the readers mind
0
Absent
Works
10
9
8
0

Cited ______ out of 10 points

Complete with at least 5 sources, formatted correctly
Complete with at least 5 sources, with some formatting issues
Does not have at least 5 sources
Absent

Holistic Impact of Paper: ______/ 100 points

Breakdown of Paper: _______/ 100 points
TOTAL: _________ / 200 Points
GRADE: ______________