Moulton Article April 5, 2009

I loved Moulton’s take on the traditional research project. It is so true that it is uninspired, unoriginal and students are unmotivated because they are basically regurgitating information they have found in the given number of sources from their assignment, all the while being careful not to plagiarize even though none of the ideas presented are their own. The solution presented of the multigenre project is ingenious. Not surprisingly, she found that students were engaged and excited about their work because students had creative control over their own project. Not only were students able to choose the genres in which they wanted to write, but they were thinking critically in order to write across genres. I’m so glad that Moulton had this idea and that I’ve been taught about it. I know for sure that if I ever teach in the upper grades, the multigenre project will be the ace up my sleeve.

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