Tom+Romano--The+MultiGenre+Research+Guru

 **DEFINITION OF MULTIGENRE IN THE SPIRIT OF MULTIGENRE 

**Multigenre pushes convention, challenges "This is the way writing is done," and "Hey, wait a minute, you can't do that in a piece of writing."

Multigenre speaks, "How come I read imaginative literature but I have to write about it in an essay that is thesis driven, argumentative, and exactly five you-know-whats (each you-know-what, of course, of the 3.8 variety), an essay in which the writer overpowers readers, beats them into submission, and concludes with a summative you-know-what that restates the thesis?"

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

But writing that way is not what multigenre is about. Multigenre removes the lid of Pandora's Rhetorical Box. Multigenre twirls you and spins you and you hope the steps the writer asks you to follow lead to fulfillment. Multigenre knows that //feeling// is first. Multigenre grooves on pulse, has flushed cheeks, hair on the back of the neck that stands on end. Multigenre makes readers sit up in their chairs. Multigenre is not roast beef; it is ciappino. It is less like mashed potatoes, and more like red beans and rice.  [|Tom Romano]