How?

This Paper will develop in stages over the course of the trimester.  In fact, if you simply complete your weekly assignments, you will have completed this Paper.  In general, the process will be:

1. Choose a topic based on the Pacific Northwest history. A topic can be an event, person, or place you are particularly interested in.  You want your selection to be somewhat complex (that is, a topic that may be be seen from different points of view).  Turn the topic into a question/s.  Complex topics worthy of investigation for this assignment often turn into questions that start with words like "how," "why," or "what if."  Your task will be to try to find an answer for your questions, not the answer to your question. 
2. Once you have settled on a question, I will review it.  Most of the time, students submit research questions that are too broad and/or general to be dealt with adequately in the time frame provided by a trimester.  In those cases, I will generally start a dialogue with you about your question to make it more narrow and specific.  (The due date for your assignments will be discussed in class.)
3. While you are finalizing your research question, begin your research.  Here's where those online databases are really going to come in handy!
4. Develop a paper proposal.  Specific information about when and how to submit this will be provided in a weekly support assignment. 
5. After your proposal is approved, continue your research and begin working on your pieces.  I'll be asking for drafts each week of the second part of the trimester.

Format?

You will publish your MGP.   The Table of Contents for your MGP should include the following (at a minimum): 

• Introduction, Preface, or Forward (should provide some indication of how/why you chose your research question; may provide some insight into why you chose a particular genre; and the repetition or recurring image, some unifying device that links the pieces together.)
• Acknowledgements (you may have received some special help or inspiration in either completing this Paper or perhaps on the way to choosing your topic-here's where you provide recognition for those who helped you)
• About the Author (here you provide biographical information so that readers understand the source of the information.
• Genre 1
• Genre 2
• Genre 3
• Genre 4
• Genre 5
• Genre 6
• Genre 7
• Genre 8
• Genre 9
• Genre 10 (unifying genre)
• Conclusion and Reflection
• Work Cited MLA style; use at least 5 sources - textbooks are appropriate. Only Internet Databases (from school) or .edu sites allowed.

Your MGP will have a voice from different points of view and include ten different pieces of writing.  Additionally, your MGP will include a presentation as well as a 2-3 page research paper,   You may choose your other genres from the list below (or suggest a genre to me for approval):

Reflection?

Your reflection on this assignment is part of the MGP (see section titled "Format?" above).

Examples:

• Clear, strong focus
  • Example Focus One

• Show not Tell
  
  • Example Show One

• Concrete Details
  
  Example Concrete One

• Sensory Details
  
  Example Sensory One

• Dialogue
  
  Example Dialogue One

• Contrast
  
  Example Contrast

• Insight
  
  Example Insight

• Rhythm
  
  Example Rhythm One

• Pace
  
  Example Pace One

• Extended Metaphor
  
  Example Metaphor One

TOPICS

Click here forMulti Genre Paper (MGP) Timeline

TOPICS