The Lost Art of Letter Writing

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With email, text messaging, and the capability of calling someone on the phone, writing a letter (and subjecting oneself to "snail mail") has become a lost art, and yet there are many types of letters to write: letters of complaint, letters of recommendation, cover letters, business letters, and love letters (does anyone write love letters anymore?).  I hope they do.

For this genre, you are going to write a letter that goes along with your multi-genre topic.  Depending on the nature of your topic, you will have to determine what kind of letter you need to write and how that letter may fit into your multi-genre puzzle.  Perhaps you will create a character and write a letter from his/her perspective that pertains to your topic.  Perhaps you are the person writing the letter if your topic is personal.  Brainstorm some ways to incorporate some "snail mail" in your multi-genre project!

It's also time to begin thinking about how your multi-genre project will take shape: how you will use repetend, which writing styles you will incorporate in the finished product, what message you want to send to your readers.  So far, you've made an advertisement, written a poem, a diary entry, and now we are focusing on letter-writing.  How can you include these 4 genres in your project?