Literacy Narrative
Literacy Narrative
Literacy Narrative
Literacy Narrative
Rough Draft Due: October 6, 2014
Length: approximately 5 minutes
The Assignment:
Record a short essay detailing your experiences with literacy. Use this
opportunity to critically explore how your previous writing experiences
affect your current relationship with writing. Writers who complete this
assignment often are surprised by the reasons and histories behind the
feelings or views they have about writing, which are often more complicated
that the authors first thought they were.
Basic Features:
1. Significance
2. Description
3. A Clear, Logical Organization
4. Appropriate Narrative Strategies
Questions to Consider for Each Basic Feature:
Significance
Does your narrative support an insight, claim, or point you are
making or implying about writing your relationship with it?
Description
Does your narrative make use of concrete details and examples,
thus showing and telling your audience your story?
A Clear, Logical Organization
How should I organize my literacy narrative so that its logical
and easy to read?
What kinds of cues should I provide?
Appropriate Narrative Strategies
Do you establish the setting of your narrative?
Do you establish the context of you narrative?
Do you use narrative action in order to depict vivid sequences?
Do you use dialogue to dramatize events?