Literacy Narrative
English 1101
OBJECTIVE: Compose a narrative in which you describe, analyze, and/or reflect on your experiences with literacy both in and out of school, and include appropriate and compelling evidence from your past.
You may be creative in your approach to this assignment, but here are two possible ways to help you begin:
- Focus on a particularly important literacy event in your life, demonstrating how this one event affected the literacy/literacies you possess are today.
- Provide a more complete history of your life as a literate person (choosing one particular kind of literacy), connecting several different instances to your current attitudes and behaviors aboutthat literacy. If you choose this option, you might pull together various highlights from your past, both positive and negative, and focus on how all those events led you to where you are today as a literate person.
No matter which approach you choose, you should identify a potential audience for your work thenmake choices about how to share your experiences in a way that best affects that audience. Since this is a narrative, remember to tell your reader the story of your writing past. For more information about the assignment as well as student examples, see pp.279-290 in the Guide to First-Year Writing.
Requirements: A 3-5 page literacy narrative including:
- Inclusion of a clear thesis that communicates your purpose/focus
- Compelling and appropriate evidence from your past
- Specific details and effective storytelling
- A coherent organizational structure that supports your focus
- A clear connection between who you are now as a writer and the experiences you’ve chosen to highlight
- Proofreading and MLA formatting
WHEN:
Draft due 9/17 in class for peer-response workshop
Revised draft due 9/19 in class peer-response workshop and conference
Final due 9/19 at Midnight