MGRP Overview: An MGRP presents multiple, even conflicting, perspectives on a topic or event, in order to provide a rich context and present an aesthetically appealing product for an audience. Your multigenre project should reflect the following:
A focus: You should not only include documents that relate to a general topic or event, but you should ensure that the documents persuade or argue a point.
A coherent organization: Documents should be created and organized to lead readers through the project and help them understand your focus and purpose. A series of seemingly unconnected pieces, though they may share a similar topic or theme, will not result in a strong MGRP. Instead, readers should experience a sense of cohesion, a sense of connection and transition between each generic document in the project. You can create coherence through transitional pieces between genres, your table of contents, or other creative modalities.
Requirements: Your MGRP will contain a minimum of 9 documents (including a Preface, Table of Contents, 5 documents of different genres, and a Bibliography and a Works Cited) that offer a sustained argument about your chosen issue. By creating documents in different genres which follow their expected conventions, you learn to write for multiple audiences and multiple purposes. All documents included are original works done by you. Some, such as the Preface, Table of Contents, Works Cited and Bibliography, have very strict guidelines. Others will be up to you to determine the genre or medium.
Preface
Table of Contents
Piece #1
Piece #2
Piece #3
Piece #4
Piece #5
Works Cited
Bibliography
Your entire MGRP should be presented in a theme that best fits your purposes. Past students have “packaged” their MGRPs as a travel brochure, a patient file, an employee handbook, a manual, a new law or bill—the options are endless! Just be sure to offer a table of contents that provides an overview of and title for each document.
Documents and Expectations
Document 1: PREFACE
Serves as a guide to readers, helping us understand the issue you’re addressing, offering us insight about why you chose the genres you chose, etc. The preface is your chance to help us understand why this topic is important, how we should “read” your documents, etc. The preface may be written as a letter to readers, a magazine article, an editorial, etc. TIP: Write the preface LAST.
Must be in proper MLA format
Must be written from the personal point of view; however, it is a formal essay.
Paragraphs must be in the MEAL format
Must be a minimum of 300 words; and no more than 600.
Must include the following:
An explanation of your claim or focus of your project. For example, you could answer why you chose this topic, or why this topic is important. You could discuss how you got the idea for this topic, especially if that’s interesting.
An explanation of your audience. In other words, the way in which your reader is supposed to suspend reality to read this project
An explanation of your research methodology. Where did you find your sources? Did you experience trouble finding reliable source material?
Citations of outside sources properly in MLA.
MAY include the following:
Necessary trigger warnings for documents
Necessary explanations for documents (such as if something is SUPPOSED to be satirical in nature)
Anything that may “trip your reader up,” in other words, an explanation of anything that we need to know to understand how to read this project from beginning to end.
Document 2: TABLE OF CONTENTS
A sequential list of document titles. Which means 2 things: (1) All documents must be titled, and (2) Your MGRP must be submitted as ONE FILE (see examples below).
Documents 3-7: THE BULK OF YOUR MGRP
The five (5) documents that make up the body of your MGRP should show your knowledge, creativity, and ability to persuade your audience(s) toward your central claim. By approaching your research findings in a creative way, your MGRP helps an audience understand many different perspectives about your topic. Some of the documents you’ll include may be more time-intensive than others. They can appear in any order you choose after your preface and before your works cited and bibliography.
Must have a minimum of ONE document from each of the 5 genre categories below. You’re certainly allowed to include more. For example, you may want to include a few shorter documents as connective tissue between each of your required ones. Fewer than 5 documents will result in a loss of a letter grade per document. In other words, if you only submit 3 of the required 5, the highest you can earn is a 79% or C-average, and that’s only if everything else in the project is perfect.
At least ONE document MUST be a rebuttal (address the other side of the argument); however, the genre of this document is up to you.
The piece MUST follow the conventions of the document. Meaning, it should, at even a glance, look like what it’s supposed to be. For example, a film transcript, looks follows a different format than a newspaper article, recipe, Wikipedia page, or a cover letter.
Document 8: WORKS CITED. Cited sources must be varied, reliable, and verifiable. As you cite sources for each document, your citation approach should be appropriate for each genre. It’s a rare ghost story, for example, that includes in-text citation practices! But there are creative ways to ensure that you a) give credit to the source from which you draw information such as referencing the sources in your preface, and b) establish your credibility as a writer who has conducted significant research to support your opinion. This is a research project; therefore, within the context of your project, you must cite, a minimum of 5 credible sources. Incorrect source formatting will result in a return and resubmit for a 30% penalty on your entire project. At least three of your five documents must cite sources. Fewer than 5 citations is an automatic 65%. No Works Cited page is an automatic fail. All citations must be in proper MLA. Failure to do so will result in an automatic fail.
Document 9: BIBLIOGRAPHY. Your bibliography should include a minimum of 10 reliable sources. Fewer than 10 is an automatic 65%. No bibliography is an automatic fail.
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