MatthessWAS3

Read //each piece of the project// carefully and check all that apply. Write specific examples in the space below for //each of the genres// in the project. **Genre **//See handout WAS2? i'm may be misreading the directions but it seems that I did this above?// **Examples ** **//What effective choices did the writer make regarding use //** **//of information, appearance, and point of view? //** 1. The reader learns about the topic from the piece. x□ 2. What visual techniques did the writer use to enhance  authenticity and mood?  Appearance  Font x □  Arrangement on page □  Graphics <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">x□ <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Other <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">3. What point of view did the writer select? <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0.0001pt 13.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> The subject’s x <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> An inanimate object’s <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Other x <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Writing Analysis Strategy: Part III: Analysis of a Multigenre Piece **

**<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Organization ** **//<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">How did the writer choose to organize the piece to //** **//<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">accomplish the purpose? //** <span style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -15.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">1. Organizational pattern <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 12.25pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Chronological <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Order of importance <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Categorical <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Inverted pyramid <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Problem solution <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Spatial <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Other x <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt;">©2006 by Melinda Putz from //A Teacher’s Guide to the Multigenre Research Project.// Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> **<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">HANDOUT 2F ** <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">2. Lead <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0.0001pt 13.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Makes reader want to read on <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0.0001pt 13.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Introduces subject x <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">3. Transitions <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0.0001pt 13.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Uses words or phrases to link ideas x <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0.0001pt 13.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Ideas lead naturally one to the next <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0.0001pt 13.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Lack of transitions is appropriate for piece <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">x □ <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">4. Ending <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Smooth and natural <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Piece feels like a unified whole <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">x□ <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 1pt 13.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Writer effectively leaves the reader in <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 12.25pt 13.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> suspense or wonder <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Language and Style ** **//<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Which word choices are particularly effective? //** <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0.0001pt 13.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Specific action verbs <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0.0001pt 13.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Specific nouns x <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0.0001pt 13.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Unique language use <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">x□ <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135pt 12.25pt 13.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Sentence variety <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 0.0001pt 13.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;">**//<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">What language techniques did the writer use to //** <span style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 135pt 6.15pt 13.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.5pt;">**//<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">enhance authenticity and mood? //** <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 1pt 13.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Spelling <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 1pt 13.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Sentence style <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 1pt 13.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Dialect x <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 1pt 13.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Register <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 135.35pt 1pt 13.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.7pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Other <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">□ <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt;">©2006 by Melinda Putz from //A Teacher’s Guide to the Multigenre Research Project.// Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. **<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">HANDOUT 2F **//<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt;"> (continued) //