After reading about what a multigenre paper is and viewing some of the examples, I am pretty excited to get started on my own. Though I was unfamiliar with the multigenre paper prior to this course, I can easily see its value. Looking over all of the examples, I wonder why I have not heard of this type of paper before. I love that students are able to make this a personal project and are encouraged to be more creative than they would if writing a traditional essay. I think that this type of project encourages a very high level of thinking in that students must connect topics to themselves and the world in general. Their ideas about organization and content validity must also transfer clearly to readers, making the task of putting the paper together a bit more challenging. In this way, students are responsible for fluidity, and must clearly represent how each genre fits logically into their paper.
Though I looked over several examples of the multigenre paper, the one that stuck out most for me was the Modern Groom paper. I felt that the author of the paper did a fantastic job assembling the pieces and really made the content flow the way that a magazine would. This example helped me to think about the importance of tone in this type of project. Though I've never read a magazine designed for males, I thought that the author did a good job of mimicking the style of Cosmopolitan, only intending men as the audience instead of women. I could tell that the author tried to appeal to men and had the quick and witty tone of this type of magazine. I also liked that the author chose to incorporate pop culture (such as The Simpsons and MC Hammer) as a way to make the magazine appealing and commercialized.
Again, I am very excited to work on my own multigenre paper. I also am glad to have learned about this project so that I will be able to use it in my own classroom someday!
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