See the page from last week outlining steps to think about when drafting your literacy narrative. Remember to Include vivid description and, when applicable, dialogue, to put your reader in the experience. Remember that a personal narrative gives the reader both a sense of how the experience felt at a time, and a sense of the writer’s reflection looking back from the vantage point of the present. Delve into the past to understand the present, but don’t forget to bring the reader into your present experience. (You may want to bring us into your experience in English 101.)

If you are struggling to get started on your essay, here are some more ideas, adapted from Writing About Writing, that may be helpful:

Examine your own literacy history, habits, and processes. the purpose of this inquiry is to get to know yourself better as a reader and writer as you embark on your college experience. As Malcolm X argued, awareness gives power and purpose, the more you know about yourself as a reader and writer, the more control you are likely to have over these processes.

• What are your current attitudes or feelings toward reading and writing? What is your approach to reading and writing assignments? Do you start on them as soon as they are assigned or procrastinate? How much time do you spend on each part of the process?
• Where do you think your feelings about and habits of writing and reading come from? What in your past has made you the kind of reader and writer you are today?
• What have any of the readings we’ve done reminded you of experiences from your past and present as a reader and a writer?

As you remember what these memories and experiences suggest, you should be looking for an overall “So what?” — a main theme, a central understanding, an overall conclusion that your consideration leads you to draw. Below are some possible examples:

• An insight about your present relationship with reading and writing based on prior experiences
• An argument about what works or what doesn’t work in literacy education on the basis of your experience
• A description of an ongoing conflict or tension you experience when you read and write, and perhaps, the story of how you solved that tension
• A story of how you negotiate multiple literacies and code switch between different types of language in different situations
• A story of your relationship with digital literacy, and or your awareness of disparities in the level of digital literacy in people close to you

This assignment asks you to think carefully about your history with literacy… either reading and writing or digital literacy; to tell a story that helps make a point; and to write an interesting and readable piece. Be sure your essay–

• tells a story or stories about your personal literacy (or digital literacy) history,
• talks about where you are now as a writer an reader (or where you are on the digital literacy spectrum) and how your past (personal and cultural) has shaped your present self, and
• makes some overall point about your literacy experiences.

Have fun…. think deeply, and write! Bring three copies to class on Thursday and submit a copy on CANVAS. I would like two volunteers to offer to have their essay “workshopped” by the whole class before we do peer review. Please let me know if you would like to volunteer!

Rough drafts should be at least 3 and 1/2 pages long and must be turned in on time if you would like feedback from me. If you do not turn in your rough draft on time, your final essay will lose points.

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