I find Romano’s multigenre approach to research inspiring.
--The Quartlery I find Romano’s multigenre approach to research inspiring.
—The Quartlery For Tom Romano, the multigenre paper is much more than a writing assignment. It is a multilayered, multivoiced literary experience. Genres of narrative thinking require writers to make an imaginative leap, melding the factual with the imaginative. Writers can’t just tell. They must show. They must make their topics palpable. They must penetrate experience. Multigenre papers enable their authors to do that.
Blending Genre, Altering Style is the first book to address the practicalities of helping students compose multigenre papers. Romano discusses genres, subgenres, writing strategies, and stylistic maneuvers that students can use in their own multigenre papers. Each idea is supported with actual student writing, including five full-length multigenre papers that demonstrate the possibilities of a multigenre approach to writing. There are also discussions of writing poetry, fiction, and dialogue, in which readers will discover how students can create genres out of indelible moments, crucial processes, and important matters in the lives of the subject under inquiry. One chapter alone is devoted to helping writers create unity and coherence in their papers.
Imbued with Romano’s passion for teaching, Blending Genre, Altering Style is an invaluable reference for any inservice or preservice English language arts teacher. The only prerequisite is a desire to help students write. |
Table of Contents
Contents:
1. Multigenre Stirrings 2. A Place to Start 3. Teacher Expertise: Timing 4. The Damp of the Night 5. Starting Out, Multigenre Models, Workshop Routine 6. Teacher Expertise: Requirements and Structures 7. Openers 8. Teacher Expertise: Genre Possibilities 9. Obsession, Fact, and Fantasy 10. Teacher Expertise: Future Engineers and the Tie-Dyed Set 11. Talking Dialogue 12. Prose Fiction 13. Learning What We Need 14. What of Traditional Research Papers? 15. The Many Ways of Poems 16. Teacher Expertise: Branching Off 17. Risk and Exodus 18. Indelible Moments, Central Acts, Crucial Things, Meaningful Places 19. Teacher Expertise: Emotional Weight/Informational Grounding 20. Genres Answered 21. Expressive Writing 22. Identity, Race, Classical Literature 23. Unity and Fulfillment 24. Evaluation and Grading Epilogue: Taking the Plunge Appendix: Multigenre Teachers' Addresses
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