05 Conclusion
…such motion, often into and through different bodies of knowledge or ways of viewing the world, can lead writers into questions of form as they consider how to represent the story of all they have learned.
-Robert Davis and Mark Shadle
Teaching Multiwriting: Researching and Composing with Multiple Genres, Media, Disciplines, and Cultures, p. 55
"So that was it. I had a significant start on my capstone project, but I was still unsure about my decision to present it in multigenre rather than a traditional paper..."
02 ASSIGNMENT SHEET & Rubric
03 ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY
-National Council of Teachers of English
“Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies”
Take a look at an authentic assignment sheet and rubric that I have designed, with guidance from other texts, that I intended to use for an actual multigenre research asignment in the future.
"From an early age, students are very sophisticated readers and producers of multimodal work. They can be helped to understand how these works make meaning, how they are based on conventions, and how they are created for and respond to specific communities or audiences."
"…the research paper is solely academic. In a culture overrun with data, the public often remains uninterested in the detached perspective of the modernist research paper."
-Robert Davis and Mark Shadle
“‘Building a Mystery’: Alternative Research Writing and the Academic Act of Seeking,” p. 420
This displays a significant portion of some of the finer points of my research. I chose the essay genre not out of obligation, but because it truly seemed like the most appropriate form to explain the following information.
04 Dialogue
Multimodal composition is more popular in composition classrooms than ever before because instructors and students are recognizing that old and new technologies have enabled, and even demanded, the use of more than one mode to communicate, entertain, solve problems, and engage in deliberation.
-Claire Lutkewitte
Multimodal Composition: A Critical Sourcebook, p. 2
The following is an imagined conversation between a secondary school teacher that teaches a research paper exclusively [Mr. Smith] and a believer of multigenre research projects [Mr. Larson]. The purpose of this dialogue is to offer an imagined back-and-forth as teachers struggle to identify their own philosophies on research projects.
A Multigenre Analysis on the Struggles and Opportunities of Multiple Modes
This is Multigenre
This website is for the senior English capstone project of Nolan Alber in the fall of 2016 at North Dakota University. The paper is on the struggles and opportunities that exist from teaching multigenre research writing projects. Please explore individual components through this website, or feel free to download the document in its entirety with the button below.
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