As you write, consider your secondary genre(s). Do these genres complement your primary genre and help you achieve your purpose and engage your audience? Refer to the chart below. Are any of the...

As you write, consider your secondary genre(s). Do these genres complement your primary genre and help you achieve your purpose and engage your audience? Refer to the chart below. Are any of the typical features of the secondary genres visible in your writing? Are there additional features from those genres that might be productively incorporated into your essay? Remember that these are typical features only — you don’t have to (and likely shouldn’t) try to incorporate every feature of each genre you use. Multi-genre writing is about becoming aware of how you pick features typical of certain genres in response to the rhetorical situation of your writing assignment. The combination of features you pick determines which genres your writing will tend to fall in, and will help you determine if you are meeting the goals of your assignment.