Some Genres You Might Use in Multigenre Research
Blurb
Shopping List
Interview
Print Journalism
Dialog
Graffiti
Magazine Article -- Cosmo? People? New Yorker? Highlights for Children? National Geographic? etc.
Diary entry
Public Records
Tattoo
Directions/Instructions
Art review (also movie, album, book, etc.)
Comic strip
Greeting card
Class Notes
Lease
Contract
Cliff Notes/"the Reader's Digest version"
Wanted poster
Short Story -- literary, Harlequin, Sci-Fi, Western, High Fantasy (e.g. Tolkien), Mystery, Realist, Surrealist, Aurrealist (see B. Knott), pastiches of particular authors, etc.
Recipe
Bumper Sticker
Play/skit
Songs -- country, metal, punk, rock, showtunes
Screed (see H.S. Thompson)
Instant Message
Talk Show Transcript
Letter to editor
Resume
Love letter
Letter of Recommendation
Job Application Letter
Textbook
Epitaph
Parody
Police Report
Electronic Journalism
Ad
Poetry -- haiku, sonnet, "workshop poem," mock epic, Greater Romantic Lyric, cowboy poetry, limerick, villanelle, clerihew, ghazal, psalm, ode, pastiches of particular authors, etc.
Criticism
Jeremiad
Political Speech
"Bad news" letter
Dear John letter
Self-help Book
Software documentation
Encomium
...... more forthcoming ......