Teaching multigenre writing through the newspaper


MULTIGENRE writing projects can help students apply writing as a way to discover, read, evaluate, and organise information.

Tom Romano, writing in his book Blending Genre, Altering Style, also suggested that students learn that effective writing is done for a purpose, with a specific audience in mind.

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