Fearless Writing: Multigenre to Motivate and Inspire

Fearless Writing: Multigenre to Motivate and Inspire

<p><em>"Multigenre writing is an immersion in a big topic of personal importance. I want students to taste such passionate immersion. I want them to experience how that immersion, combined with the possibility of multiple genres, can waken a boldness of expression in them. Students' subjective experience with multigenre will affect their attitude toward writing. It will affect your attitude toward teaching."</em><br /> -Tom Romano</p> <p>What does it mean to write fearlessly? Tom Romano illustrates the power of multigenre papers to push students beyond the "safety zone" of narrative and exposition into a place where fact meets imagination, and research meets creativity. A place to try the untried. <em>Fearless Writing</em> empowers students to leap into this personal, multifaceted take on research writing by giving you specific strategies and practical ideas to help students:</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Generate topic ideas </li> <li>Design research plans </li> <li>Develop core elements of a multigenre project </li> <li>Create innovative genres and "golden threads" of unifying elements. </li> </ul> <p>While multigenre papers address many Common Core writing standards, Tom's passionate response to both the strengths and weaknesses of the Common Core serves as a lightning bolt of awareness, and a rallying cry for a writing curriculum of genre diversity. </p> <p>Expand your notion of writing and teaching writing, fearlessly.<br /> <br /> Read sample chapters here.</p>