Overview In Exercise B you'll write a short literacy narrative, like the ones you've read by Eudora Welty, Malcolm X, and Conor Boyland. As George and Trimbur observe, literacy narratives are "stories of how people encounter and make sense of reading and writing."
Your literacy narrative is a next step in the process leading to Essay One. It offers an opportunity to reflect on your own experience with reading and writing. If the story you tell is compelling, you may use it as raw material later in the process when you write your literacy analysis. So, once again, you're gathering ides for the final draft of Essay One.
Learning Objectives - Expand your definition of "literacy"
- Examine the role reading and writing have played in your life
- Develop your narrative skill
- Practice a form of what Harris calls "taking an approach," in that you may be adapting another writer's "style of thought and writing to the demands of your own project"
Writing Process- Begin by reading the directions at the top of p. 31: "Use the readings in the 'Literacy Narratives' section as models to think about the role reading and/or writing has played in your life. Focus on a particular instance, like Eudora Welty trying to get a library card or Malcolm X copying the dictionary, or a particular use of reading and writing, like IM or Facebook [or Twitter]. Tell the story in as much detail as you can, paying attention to setting and other characters involved, as well as your own and others' motivations and feelings."
- Write your narrative.
- Bring it to class to share.
Length, Format, and Documentation of Your Writing Process- Write at least 500 words.
- Double-space, and include a heading with your name, instructor's name, course number, date, and the name of this assignment: Exercise B for Essay One.
- Save this exercise to submit with your final draft of Essay One.
Grading
- I will not grade this exercise, but I'll review all of your work leading up to the final draft of Essay One when I assign a score for "Writing Process" on the evaluation guide.
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