Why do a multi-genre piece instead of a traditional literary analysis?
The reasons are threefold. First, the multi-genre paper allows a writer to practice more than one kind of writing, and requires the writer to consider how specific forms of writing accomplish different ends. This ability to identify type of writing with its purpose or rhetorical function is a basic tenet of literary study. Second, the multi-genre paper provides practice with the linking of critical thinking to creative expression. Finally, a well-constructed multi-genre paper can make the same points, criticisms, and arguments that a traditional analysis makes; it is simply in a different–neither better nor worse–format.
