Multigenre Research Paper Madness

If you peeked into last Wednesday's class you most likely saw students working on laptops with screens up that read: "Addictions," "9/11: The World's Biggest Tragedy," "Lindsey Lohan's New Jail Settlement," or "Child Abuse." This was because during last class we were given time to practice coming up with a piece for our Multigenre Research Papers. We started off class by flipping through pages of newspapers in order to explore the different types of writing that was used. A few genres that we found were: Interviews, Q&A's, recipes, pictures with captions, charts, and polls. After familiarizing ourselves with various types of contexts, we were given class time to create our own style, in which we used our topic for our papers in order to construct our first genre sample. With my topic of technology in education, I was able to formulate a poll that would display information I collected on people's opinions involving technology in the classroom. I plan on using the website Polleverywhere.com to help me generate accurate figures. I haven't decided on what other genres I will incorporate into my project, but I will be sure to keep you updated on my progress!