Multigenre Project Planner with Rust, Fall 2014

1. Name:____________________________________________________
Fall 2014 | Multigenre Project Planner/Checklist 1
Multigenre Project Planner
Instructions: Use this tool to help you manage your time and your multigenre research project. Please ask Ms. Rust, Ms. Hamilton, or Ms. Lund for assistance if you have a question or need help!
Multigenre Project Requirement Date Started Date(s) Drafting Date(s) Revising Date Finished Date Published to Word or Wordpress
Welcome Page (if publishing your project virtually) OR Cover Page (if publishing project as a Word document)
Virtual Projects: Navigation Bar of Pages is in Correct Order
OR Word Projects: Table of Contents (see Ms. Hamilton if you need help setting this up—it will be one of the final steps)
Multigenre Element 1 Product
Multigenre Element 1 Notes
Paragraph explaining…
 what the multigenre product represents about your understandings and key idea/concept/answers to your research question(s). Think of these pieces concrete details.
 Why you chose this medium and how it conveys your big ideas (think of this aspect as commentary).
 You have MLA style parenthetical references for all information paraphrased OR directly quoted.
 You have included image attribution for the product either in the product or have included a brief summary at the end of your notes.
Multigenre Element 2 Product
I am publishing my project as a:
 A website (Wordpress or other platform)
 Word document that we will convert to a PDF

2. Name:____________________________________________________
Fall 2014 | Multigenre Project Planner/Checklist 2
Multigenre Project Requirement Date Started Date(s) Drafting Date(s) Revising Date Finished Date Published to Word or Wordpress
Multigenre Element 2 Notes
Paragraph explaining…
 what the multigenre product represents about your understandings and key idea/concept/answers to your research question(s). Think of these pieces concrete details.
 Why you chose this medium and how it conveys your big ideas (think of this aspect as commentary).
 You have MLA style parenthetical references for all information paraphrased OR directly quoted.
 You have included image attribution for the product either in the product or have included a brief summary at the end of your notes.
Multigenre Element 3 Product
Multigenre Element 3 Notes
Paragraph explaining…
 what the multigenre product represents about your understandings and key idea/concept/answers to your research question(s). Think of these pieces concrete details.
 Why you chose this medium and how it conveys your big ideas (think of this aspect as commentary).
 You have MLA style parenthetical references for all information paraphrased OR directly quoted.
 You have included image attribution for the product either in the product or have included a brief summary at the end of your notes.
Dear Reader Letter Part A:
What did you know about your topic before your research began? What questions did you want to investigate and what did you want to learn? Why were you interested in this topic?
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3. Name:____________________________________________________
Fall 2014 | Multigenre Project Planner/Checklist 3
Multigenre Project Requirement Date Started Date(s) Drafting Date(s) Revising Date Finished Date Published to Word or Wordpress
Dear Reader Letter Part B
What are the highlights and key understandings that you have learned? You will want to think about this in terms of your primary research questions and organize accordingly.
n/a
Dear Reader Letter Part C
Why does your topic matter? Why should someone care about your topic?
n/a
Dear Reader Letter Part D
What learning standards did you choose as your personal learning targets, and how have you demonstrated improvement and/or mastery? Be sure to cite specific evidence of your work over the last few weeks.
n/a
Dear Reader Letter Part E
What do you feel you have learned from this process and what did you do well? What questions still remain for you, and/or what you want to do better? What does your project say about you as a learner and as a researcher?
n/a
Dear Reader Letter (complete composition consisting of Part A-E in paragraph format, including a salutation, closing, and “signature”(your name)
Date:
Appendix: Mindmapping Process, Step 1
Step 1: I have downloaded and saved the photo of my mindmap using the instructions on the LibGuide from Ms. Hamilton to my home directory or a flash drive.
Photo published/embedded in your Wordpress OR
Photo inserted into your page for this task in your Word doc

4. Name:____________________________________________________
Fall 2014 | Multigenre Project Planner/Checklist 4
Multigenre Project Requirement Date Started Date(s) Drafting Date(s) Revising Date Finished Date Published to Word or Wordpress
Appendix: Mindmapping Process, Step 2 Step 2: Compose the paragraph/narrative of your mindmapping process
 Describes your mindmapping process (how you went about creating it)
 Explains what ideas, concepts, or themes that became clearer for you through the mindmapping process
 Identifies gaps or patterns you noticed in your mindmapping process.
 Share how mindmapping process helped you narrow your focus or “crop” your topic (look back at your mindmap interview notes from Monday, 10/20 to help you composed this piece).
Works Cited
 Created correctly in EasyBib and imported into my publishing platform of Wordpress or Microsoft Word.
 I have included only sources referenced and used in the project; Ms. Rust and Ms. Hamilton will be able to see parenthetical references in the project for each source on this list.
 I have not numbered or bulleted this list.
Sharing My Project with Ms. Rust and Ms. Hamilton
 If a Wordpress site, I have submitted the link to my project through the Google Form on the LibGuide
 If a Word document, Ms. Hamilton has helped me doublecheck the formatting and publish the document as a PDF. I have emailed Ms. Hamilton a copy of the PDF. buffy_hamilton@gwinnett.k12.ga.us