Moving on to Unit 3:
Throughout the semester, we’ve seen people communicating their ideas in a variety of different genres (essays, comics, slam poetry, speeches, articles, etc). In each of these instances, the author is trying to reach a different audience and they pick the genre that will best speak to that audience. You’ll be writing about the topic you researched in Unit 2– so now it’s time to think about what genre you think will best reach your audience!
Resources
Genre Project Proposal Guiding Qs
Mentor Text Analysis guiding questions
Podcast Mentor Text Analysis guiding questions: Podcast Mentor Text Analysis HWPodcast Mentor Text Analysis HW
Outline For Genre Project (with example from RBG)
Student examples for outline of genre project
Genre and Genre Analysis Slideshow Prof. Chung
Genre Analysis Worksheet Prof. Chung
STUDENT EXAMPLES GENRE PROJECT
OP-ED
We Cannot Fight Anti-Asian Hate Without Dismantling Asian Stereotypes
Sangay: Violence Occurs When There Is Silence
Gentian: Wake Up America! We Need To Extend the School Year
Letter
Emily Hu_Letter Dear Future Asian Generation
Richard — Dear Fellow Unemployed New Yorkers
PODCAST
Anabel: Should We Trust Food Labeling?
Lisa: Chinese Parenting: Timmy’s got 15 years of experience; he’s NINE!
Julian: How the Pandemic effected Video Gaming
VIDEO ESSAY
Dylan: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Rap: Should We Celebrate?
Balthazar: China’s Game of Spies
TEDTALK
Alexis TEDtalk: Semiconductors are the New Oil: Why Taiwan is Worth Fighting For
Alexis- Transcript for TEDtalk & CreatorStatemt
Poetry
LLWu AllOverAmerica ASIAN AM PROTEST POEM
Makayla — Emulation Poem and Makayla Visual Poem
Poems of 2023 Poetry Month WNYC
Bithiah Poem and CREATOR STATEMENT
NEWSLETTER
Poster
Jacqueline Munoz Shopping Infographics Poster–Jacqueline
Feature article with photos
Here is an example essay I wrote for a previous class using just MSWord: ESSAY 2 sample of My Neighborhood Essay (also a personal narrative essay genre)
Anastasia Cortez(also a personal narrative essay genre)
Infographics Survey
Jacqueline: Shopping Changes (1)
Instagram carousel
Zoē Pearson – Instagram Carousel Inforgraphic (1)
Video INTERVIEW
Mateo: Changes in Work World Post-Pandemic (missing the transcript, but transcript is required): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UMutNgUEN9QgDbZDjvnybDf6YU7TUYyy/view?usp=share_link
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Creator’s Statement Examples
Prof Blain’s Multi-Modal Genre Project Presentation
Blaine-Poster-Multimodal-genres-Unit-3
How to Create and Present a Survey
Five Ways to Present Survey Results
Turning Survey Results into Presentations
How to Write a Summary or Survey Results
How to Create a Visual Poem Experience
Canva AND What is Canva? (video introduction)
A Viral Poem for A Viral Time Kitty O’Meara Poem (see the visual poem that a fan made using O’Meara words)
How to Make a Visual Poem JPGetty Museum
Tips on Reciting a PoemPoetry Out Loud
Create a Visual PoemCreative Educator
More Resources for Creating Multi-Modal Texts
Sound:
- Free music: https://www.purple-planet.com/
- Free sound effects: http://soundbible.com/free-sound-effects-1.html
- Copyright safe images (photos, clip art, etc): https://search.creativecommons.org/
- Audio creator/editor: https://www.audacityteam.org/ [easy to use with a full range of tools, lots of videos about how to use it]
- Here’s a review about free audio editing software https://www.techradar.com/news/the-best- free-audio-editor
Graphics:
- https://www.canva.com/ is a mostly free (especially if you upload your own images) design program that does everything from posters and banners to storyboards and comic strips. A real go-to tool for a lot of people
- https://piktochart.com/ The free version has a 40MB image upload limit.
- Online comic maker: https://www.makebeliefscomix.com/
- Stock videos (and photos): https://www.pexels.com
- Illustrations you can manipulate: https://undraw.co/illustrations
Video
- Video editor that’s free and great for beginners: https://videopad-video-editor.en.softonic.com/
- YouTube Studio will give you lots of tutorials about how to create videos.
https://screencast-o-matic.com/ Screencast-o-matic is free if you want to do screen capture videos from your laptop. Word of warning: if you really want to do some close editing work, it will cost, but for the basics, it’s fine. You can upload the resulting video to YouTube.
Podcast resources
- Garageband — this program is already on your Mac. Here is Garageband for PC:
2. Audacity– this program is free for both Mac and PC ; you can use your computer to record sounds and then edit them
- Audacity Tutorial
- Audio creator/editor: https://www.audacityteam.org/ [easy to use with a full range of tools, lots of videos about how to use it]
- Make a podcast in Audacity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl-WDjWrTtk
3. Voice Memos for iPhone users — many students told me this was a good way to make podcast
How to use Voice Recording for Great Podcast Audio
Sound:
- Free music: https://www.purple-planet.com/
- Free sound effects: http://soundbible.com/free-sound-effects-1.html
- Here’s a review about free audio editing software https://www.techradar.com/news/the-best- free-audio-editor
AND EVEN MORE PRODUCTION RESOURCES!
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Here are some production tutorials:
Top 5 STOCK VIDEO Footage Sites
How to Record & Add Voice-Over on CapCut PC
CapCut Tutorial For PC and Mac! (2022 New Release!)
https://clipchamp.com/en/windows-video-editor/
LInk to Sony Vegas (software editor) From Cristofer
Here is Prof. Blaine’s presentation on How to Create a Recording
JBlaine How to create an interesting recording
