1. Unit 4 Assignment Instructions
Outline of Multi-Genre/Modal Environment Analysis
1: Dear Reader/Introduction: Introduce the topic for the reader by previewing what to
expect in your project, and what the reader can look forward to viewing and experiencing
through your project. You should describe the focus of your project while also previewing
how you explored this focus in your project in this Dear Reader/Introduction. (¾-1 page in
length)
2: Expository Mini-Essay: 400-500 words (At least 1½-2 pages double spaced). Form a
thesis about the topic (college campus rhetoric) and use your essay to expose, explain,
inform, or illuminate some issue about the topic. For this essay, you are responding to
your topic/focus in order to give more context and information about the topic/focus of your
project. Have this writing focused and concrete in order to effectively communicate your
topic to your audience.
3: Chosen Genres: For your five chosen genres, you can do them in any format that you
think fits your project and/or focus. These genres are meant to display how you can
incorporate your focus through a variety of mediums/forms of writing in order to enhance
the reader’s thinking about the topic.
4: Note Page: This demonstrates to the reader how your focus/thesis about the topic is
incorporated into your genres. In this part of your project, you will describe how each
genre ties into a part of your focus/topic in order to prove how your genres enhance the
reader’s thinking of the topic. In your Notes Page, you will need to do the following:
• Describe why you chose this particular genre,
• Detail why you did the genre in the way that you did,
• Explain what you think is effective about your genre, and why it is
effective,
• Justify how your genre helps your reader gain a deeper understanding of
your topic/focus.
I’m looking for at least ¾ of a page for each genre in your Notes Page.
5: Works Cited Page: For this project, you may need to incorporate sources that help
give you insight towards your focus/topic, or sources that help you support writing about
your genres. If you do, you should include a Works Cited page in MLA format.
Projects are due the week of May 1st – May 5th in class
A presentation order will be determined by random drawing
Your project is due the day you are assigned to present
If the compilation of this project is in physical form, it will be handed in to your instructor
after your presentation. If your compilation is an online format, submit any access
information in the Dropbox on BbLearn.
