This document provides guidance for students creating a multigenre artifact reflecting insights from their research. It lists 6 groups of genres students can choose from, including print media, visual with words, visual display, informational, creative writing, and digital/web 2.0 options. The document asks students to consider why they are choosing a particular genre and what they want to convey through it before committing to their artifact.

1. MULTIGENRE ARTIFACTS
Your multigenre artifact should reflect some significant piece of knowledge or insight
gained through your research. Ask yourself these questions before committing to a
genre/artifact:
1. Why am I choosing this particular genre?
2. What do I want to show, express, or convey through this genre?
Group 1: Print Media Group 2: Visual with Words Group 3: Visual Display
Newspaper OR tabloid Poster Artwork
on a character: Invitation Collage
include these Ad Map
elements (use Travel Brochure Wanted Poster
Publisher): Greeting Card Artifacts for a Time Capsule
Obituary Cartoon or Manga
Editorial Version/Graphic Novel
Letter to the Editor Postcards
Advice Column Character “baseball” cards
Magazine Article A play or skit
Resume/Job
Application
Group 4: Informational Group 5: Creative Writing Group 6: Digital and Web 2.0
Interview (think People Skit or Play Photo Story
magazine or the Oprah Song MovieMaker
Show) Poem (s) Web Page
Trivia Game Short Story Glogster www.glogster.com
Timeline Diary of a character VoiceThread www.voicethread.com
Bulletin Board Eyewitness account ScrapBlog www.scrapblog.com
Double-voice piece/double voice Mixwit http://www.mixwit.com/
poem
Found poem
Verbal collage
A story
Recipe (character or event recipe)
Lists
Other Ideas: I am open to other suggestions---please see me for prior approval. Thank you!