Multigenre Research project resources and information - English/Language Arts Resources

Here are some images of student Multigenre projects. These are from Melinda Putz's book A Teacher's Guide to the Multigenre Project. Notice the second two projects have similar themes but are very different in presentation.
A Teacher's Guide to the Multigenre Project. Melinda Putz,` Heinemann 2006 ISBN 0-325-00785-3

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Here are some visuals of projects done by my students from 8th grade.

The first is a multigenre project about Ray Charles.

The multigenre project below is about Maya Angelou

Tom Romano at Miami of Ohio University - the multi-genre man
http://www.users.muohio.edu/romanots/index.html
Power point resource for MGP.
http://www.slideshare.net/rghenry21/multigenre-project
More examples...
http://shepardacademyjuniorblock.weebly.com/examples-of-multigenre-projects.html
An assignment...
http://www.arthes.com/community/2004projects/multigenre.html

An English 10 MGP assignment...
http://stephensenglish10-2009-2010.wikispaces.com/Multi-Genre+Writing+Project

The following two links are from an 8th grade teacher's wiki page. Ms. Lew's Loony Land of Literacy.
http://mslew.wikispaces.com/Multi-genre+Project
http://mslew.wikispaces.com/Multi-genre+Project+Exemplary+Examples

Multi-genre writing and projects
These are University models but worth reading.
http://writing.colostate.edu/gallery/multigenre/introduction.htm
Here are some samples produced by University students
http://writing.colostate.edu/gallery/multigenre/toc.htm
Below is an assignment format for a multigenre project
http://www.huffenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/multigenreresearchproject.pdf
The link below is a resource link "multigenre web" with many resources
http://mshogue.com/ce9/multi_genre/multigenre.htm#Parts

Listen to Tom Romano - the creator of the multigenre project/writing.
http://www.learner.org/workshops/middlewriting/p5_tr_transcript.html

More multi-genre models
http://performancepyramid.muohio.edu/Multigenre-Papers/Classroom-Methods/Example-Multigenre-Papers.html

Resources for multi-genre projects. (I like Melinda Putz's book, "Multigenre Research Project".
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=multi-genre+research+project