MultigenreProcess

=A Process for Composing a Multigenre Project= I can't give you a list of specific steps to follow for creating your project. Everyone's process will be different. What I offer here is an approach to composing.


 * 1) **Throw yourself into it.** Begin by exploring your topic, by writing as much as you can in as many different genres as you can. Don't worry about whether the writing is good or not. Don't worry how it will all fit together. Don't worry about whether you will use everything you write. The act of writing from different perspectives and in different genres should lead you to discovery. (This is the idea behind freewriting: that writing leads to thinking. Genres can also be used as invention tools; writing in different ways will lead you to thoughts you might not have had otherwise.)
 * 2) **Decide on a structure.** As you are writing, an idea for how to organize your multigenre essay may occur to you. If so, great! If not, don't be surprised. You might have to step back and read through what you've written and think deliberately how to put the pieces together.
 * 3) **Write and revise with readers in mind.** At this point, you should now be thinking of the essay as a whole, and you should be thinking of how a reader will make sense of it. You will need to make decisions about what to include and what to cut and about what order to put your pieces in. You will probably have to write more pieces to fill out the structure you've decided on.
 * 4) **Revise for clarity and effectiveness.** Now you should have a complete "draft" of the multigenre, and you can begin looking at it objectively, with an editor's eye. Is each individual piece as good as it can be? Does the overall essay work as well as it can?
 * 5) **Edit for correctness.**