MGP assignment sheet

1. ENGL 102-07
Williamson
Multi-Genre Project:
Overview of the Project:
This project is intended to allow you to creatively express and contextualize your thoughts and
experiences on a topic through a variety of genres. In your project, you will compose several genres that
will push and develop your writing in different contexts. This also means you will have to keep an
audience in mind in order to effectively communicate the topic across various writing genres. For this
project, you must do the following:
• Focus on the topic of the Contemporary College Experience, and then research this topic through
a variety of supplemental sources, including readings you find on your own.
• Compose a Multi-Genre project that explores and communicates through imaginative genres the
content and themes of the Contemporary College Experience in order to showcase the topic
in some way and enhance the reader’s thinking about that topic.
• Develop a piece of writing for each genre that embodies the topic of the Contemporary College
Experience in a unique and/or thoughtful way.
Overview of the Topic:
For this project, you are responsible for responding to what it means to be a college student today through
a specific focus. First, consider how you fit within the context of higher education, including the ways in
which college influences and shapes individuals. Next, you will incorporate your own experiences as a
student in ways that your audience can connect with through your written genres. Your audience includes
your other class members, students attending this university or other universities, prospective college
students, and those who have attended college.
Possible questions to answer through your Genres: (You can answer one question and focus on this
question throughout the project, or answer multiple questions throughout your project)
• What does it mean to be a college student?
• What experiences do college students have?
• How do you fit within your peers?
• What sets you apart from other students?
• What does being a student mean to people who share, or do not share, your age, ethnicity,
gender, sexuality, et cetera.
• How does your background/personal history influence your experiences as a college student?
• How has your identity as a student changed over the years?
• What does it mean to be an ideal student?
How Long Should the Topic-Based Multi-Genre Project Be?
Your Multi-Genre Project must contain at least twelve (12) genres. Included in that twelve is the
Introduction, Notes Page, Expository Piece, and Bibliography. That leaves eight (8) genres for you to
teach the reader what you’ve learned/explored/imagined/experienced. Of the eight that you choose, at
least one must be related to your major/field of interest, one must be completed collaboratively with
another class member, and at least one must be a genre that is professionally focused. This leaves you five
(5) genres of your choice (We will cover these areas in more detail in class).
Definition of Genre for your project: a construction/compilation of rhetorical elements that incorporate a
focus about a topic (either in writing or another modality) that has a clear author, audience, styles, and
conventions that are unique to it.

2. ENGL 102-07
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What Components Must the MGP Contain?
• Introduction/Preface/Dear Reader
• Expository piece (at least 400-500 words. Make this vivid, informational, straight-ahead writing. Boil your
focus down to essentials. Write exposition that readers want to continue reading.)
• Bibliography in MLA format including least 5 sources related to your focus.
• A Notes Page that documents and justifies how each of your genres enhance the reader’s understanding of
your focus, how your research on the topic/focus has informed the construction of your genres, and how
you connected your focus/topic to your genres.
• 8 chosen genres from the list below. In that eight, at least one genre will need to be relevant to your
major/field of interest, one must be completed collaboratively with another class member, and at least one
genre must be professionally focused.
• At least one visual element in your project.
• Unifying elements from your chosen focus (repeated images/ideas, themes and experiences related to but
exclusive to a particular genre, details just mentioned in one piece but exploded and illustrated in a later
piece)
Some examples of genres you might try:
Directories Cast lists Memo
Encyclopedia entries Fable Infographic
Game rules Interviews Drawings/Doodles
Job applications Letters/post cards Collections
Websites Map Tattoo Designs
Parodies Headlines Soundtrack
Manifestos Prayer Book Cover
Quotations Recipes Memory Box
Time lines Facebook pages “Found” items
Tweets Texts Survival Kit
Blog Postings Pinterest Pinnings Sculpture
Want ads Menu Mosaic
Newscasts Playlists Blueprints
First person narrative Third Person Narrative Remix
Stream of consciousness Interior Monolog Confessions
Dialogs Poem for two voices Post-Secret Posts
Free verse Photograph poem Humans of New York Posts
Haiku Limerick Tagxedo/Wordclouds
List poem Dramatic monolog How-to Guide/Directions
Newspapers Song lyrics Twitter Pages
Alternate Style Pieces Fragments Podcast
Double voices Lists GIFs
Hard news stories Feature stories Memes
Dear Abby Comic strips Odyssey Posts
Obituaries Editorials Instagram Pages
Classified ads Reviews Snapchat Stories
Diary/journal entries Allegories Paintings
Character sketches Brochure Twitter Moments
Bumper stickers Announcements Album Covers
Hand-Written Notes Movie Poster Vines
Video Diary Time Capsule Emoji Story
If you have an idea for a genre not on this list, please consult with me for approval.
Extra Credit:
In order to receive up to five extra points on your project, you may complete an extra genre individually. For
full credit, you will need to include this genre in your notes page.

3. ENGL 102-07
Williamson
Through this unit, students will be able to:
• Accurately assess and effectively respond to a wide variety of audiences and rhetorical
situations.
• Comprehend college-level and professional prose and analyze how authors present their
ideas in view of their probable purposes, audiences, and occasions.
• Present ideas as related to, but clearly distinguished from, the ideas of others (including
the ability to paraphrase, summarize, and correctly cite and document borrowed
material).
• Focus on, articulate, and sustain a purpose that meets the needs of specific writing
situations.
• Explicitly articulate why they are writing, who they are writing for, and what they are
saying.
• Write critical analyses and syntheses of college-level and professional prose.
• Be able to make the connection between questions and problems in your life both within
and outside of college.
• Attend to and productively incorporate a variety of perspectives.
• Develop flexible strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proofreading.
• Understand writing as an open process that permits writers to use later invention and re-
thinking to revise their work.
• Give and receive constructive feedback from peers.
• Use conventions of format and structure appropriate to the rhetorical situation and
practice appropriate means of documenting their work.
DUE DATES:
• Final Project due: Monday, December 4th in class
• Rhetorical Reflection due: Wednesday, December 13th at midnight