Help: Multigenre Argument

Kids, here are the links that I told you about in class today...

A link to a brief summary of argument, with more active links that give detail on Classical, Toulmin and Rogerian argument. Google these terms if you want more information...there's tons out there.


Here is a link to two lengthy multigenre papers -- one entitled "The Feminine Ideal: Women in the Media" which is closer to what we are working on; the other on censorship, called "Gilead Revisited..." will be more germaine when we study Huck Finn, I think...plus, there's a MG newsletter created about genetically engineered foods -- it may be useful for you to examine these texts to see how effective multigenre papers function.

A search of "multigenre research" or "multigenre paper" will yield multiple hits and links for you to explore.

Choosing a genre IS a rhetorical strategy. Why is some information set up in a chart, while another piece of related information is best explored in an editorial, or in a letter? Choosing the VEHICLE for the content is a decision made by a writer who is considering how their identified audience will best receive and understand that content, and be somehow moved to act or respond or to expand their worldview...

Don't stay confused. Get help from each other, from me, and from the big fat world of information out here at our fingertips.

Let It Be...

Though I realize, this may not exactly be the right place, I find this as a place to post thoughts and opinions, in order for some form of positive feedback, and in times such as these, positive feedback is in great appreciation... Today at Mayfair High School, we lost not only a teacher, or a colleague, we lost a friend, we lost a wonderful person, and we lost a life. Although I hardly got the chance to appreciate her, and the life that just to surge through her with every smile and every word she spoke, and though I was not as blessed with this opportunity, for the short time I had with her, I grew quite fond of Dr. Linda Evans. And it seems incredible to me, that I can feel such sorrow, and such remorse for someone I had just barely knew, but I can't even imagine what her family must be going through, and i wish upon them the utmost strength and love, as well as most of all hope, I ind at times like this, that music does not only comfort, but it was also, such a major part of her life as well... so, by the title of this post, In recognition of Dr. Evans, I turn to The Beatles....Let it Be"... because that, is all we can do.


-Ravin Marmolejo