March 18th, 2019 
adminPLEASE READ ALL OF THE REQUIREMENTS.
You need to write a minimum of 1500 words on some experience you have with reading and writing
I’LL Post the requirementshere and I’ll upload 2 files
The first file contains the requirements
the second file contain SAMPLE of the essay
REQUIREMENTS:
Purpose
The purpose of this assignmentwhich requires you to write about your literacy (i.e. reading and writing) history habits and processesis to help you understand yourself better as a reader and writer. Fuller awareness of your literacy practices can help you develop greater control over them and your learning.
Description
A common definition for narrative is that it is a written account of linked events. In other words a narrative is a story. To compose your literacy narrative you will draw upon those stories anecdotes memories experiences readings and other events and descriptions that allow you to offer readers the most vivid interesting and insightful explanations you can about yourself as a writer and reader.
Getting Started
Invention Many of the responses to the assigned readings and in-class writing prompts can contribute to material you may choose to use in your literacy narrative essay. Our course textbook also offers the following questions (some of which you likely have already discussed or written about) as a means of encouraging you to mine your memory thinking carefully about where youve been and where you are as a reader and writer (206):
How did you learn to write and/or read?
What kinds of writing/reading have you done in the past?
How much have you enjoyed the various kinds of writing/reading youve done?
What are particularly vivid memories that you have of reading writing or activities that involved them?
What is your earliest memory of reading? Your earliest memory of writing?
What sense did you get as you were learning to read or write of the value of reading and writing and where did that sense come from?
What frustrated you about reading or writing as you were learning and then as you progressed through school? By the same token what pleased you?
What kind of writing/reading do you do most commonly?
What are your current attitudes feelings or stances toward reading and writing?
Where do you think your feelings about and habits of writing and reading come from?
How did you get to where you are as a writer/reader?
What in your past has made you the kind of writer/reader you are today?
Who are some people in your life who have acted as literacy sponsors?
What are some institutions and experiences in your life that have acted as literacy sponsors?
What have any of the readings in this chapter reminded you about from your past or present as a reader and writer?
Analyzing Your Material
The writers of our textbook offer an essential recommendation:
As you consider what all these memories and experiences suggest you should be looking for an overall so what?a main theme a central finding an overall conclusion that your consideration leads you to draw. It might be an insight about why you read and write as you do today based on past experience. It might be an argument about what works or what doesnt work in literacy education on the basis of your experience . . . . It might be a description of an ongoing conflict or tension you experience when you read and writeor the story of how you resolved such a conflict earlier in your literacy history. (It could also be a lot of other things [emphasis added].) (207)
Planning and Drafting
Calling upon the material you generated through reading responses in-class writing and brainstorming identify the So what? or main point you want your literacy narrative to convey. You then can use the experiences ideas and insights from that material to explain and support the main point you want to make about your own literacy. As the authors of our textbook point out Because your literacy narrative tells the particular story of a particular personyouits shape will depend on the particular experiences youve had and the importance you attach to them. Therefore its difficult to suggest a single structure for the literacy narrative that will work for all writers. The structure that you use should support your particular intention and content (207). Thus there is no formula or template for this writing task. Because you are the subject of your literacy narrative writing it in first-person makes sense. As you draft your essay it might be helpful to ask yourself the following questions:
Should I focus on one pivotal event or should I include an array of related events?
Should I put events in chronological order or would a different order be more interesting?
Should I use dialogue descriptive imagery and other narrative strategies to tell the story (or stories) I want to?
Where should I summarize and where should I go into detail?
What course readings (or lines from poetry or song lyrics or other creative works) can I quote or refer to that help me make an important point?
Should I begin my narrative with a traditional essay introduction or should I begin in medias res?
What Makes It Effective?
As the authors of our textbook also point out the literacy narrative essay assignment asks you to carefully think about your history as a reader and writer (207). Furthermore an effective literacy narrative essay will do the following: tell a story or stories about your literacy history identify where you are now as a writer and reader and explain how your past has shaped your present make some overall point [So what?] about your literacy experiences The authors add: The strongest literacy narratives will incorporate ideas and concepts from the readings in this unit to help frame and explain your experiences (207). As will be true of all the writing you submit for evaluation in this course your essay should also be clear organized interesting and well-edited (207). Final drafts should be at least 1500 words. Be sure to include an interesting title too. DUE DATES
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