Classic English Literature Essay Help-The Literacy Narrative of a Positive or Negative Past Experience or Event
ASSIGNMEN T
Write a 3 to 4-page essay in which you describe a literacy event or experience—positive or negative—from your past. The event can come from your experience in school or in the world outside; it may be something you experienced in your early life, or it can be something you’ve encountered recently. Use the assigned readings as models, particularly for vividness of description and manner of reflection.
CONTEXT
First, this assignment is designed to give you an opportunity to work on narrative writing. Second, it should serve as a catalyst to a reflective investigation into your background as a reader and writer. Third, it will help me learn about the kinds of events you experienced that you believe had an impact on the kind of literate person you are today.
For this assignment, consider a literacy event as any event that loosely involves reading or writing—not necessarily in school. This may be the learning of new and meaningful vocabulary (or even language), the writing of a story or essay, a particular reading experience, reading or writing interactions with parents, friends, teachers, or other students.
FORM
The essay should have two parts: narrative and reflection.
Narrative: Anarrativeisastory. Becausethisisanassignmentthatmustexplaintheeventtosomeoneelse, (me: your instructor who is interested in what you have to say about literacy experiences and how you grow from them), you will need to narrate the experience as fully and as richly as possible. Your essay should be filled with concrete and specific details. Furthermore, "literacy events" do not take place in a void; they are always part of some larger experience. Pay attention to the larger experience. Include, as appropriate, descriptions of the particulars of the experience: setting, characters (people involved), dialogue, background, and drama.
Reflection: Your essay should also reflect on why this event was (or is) of such importance and offer an explanation or evaluation to your audience. For example, you might consider what kind of impact this experience had on your attitudes toward reading or writing. How did it affect you as a person? How would you rate its long-term effects? What impact might this have on others in similar situations? In other words, the reflection should try to answer the question: so what?
The reflection portion is your central claim; the narrative is your evidence.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Your instructor who wants to learn how literacy experiences have affected students, positively or negatively. So, this will be an audience familiar with these type of events, but you’re the one with the insider knowledge. You’re the expert.
SLOs for WP 1
Demonstrate rhetorical awareness of audience through different genre-based assignments
Demonstrate knowledge of writing as a process, including consideration of peer and instructor feedback, from initial
draft to final revision
Demonstrate sentence-level correctness
EVALUATION CRITERIA
Proficiency with elements of narrative and description
• A clearly explained insight
• Organization, focus, and balance of narrative, description, and insight • Grammatical Correctness
