“The term literacy event gives us a way to think about how reading and writing enter our lives and shape our interactions with others” (Trimbur 29).
Purpose: The purpose of a literacy narrative is to look at a time in your life when reading and/or writing had a significant effect for you and then to analyze this effect in writing. Refer to chapter 15 in The Norton Field Guide for memoir tips.
Audience: Your audience for this project is two-fold at least. You will have a primary audience which is the audience for which the narrative is intended. For example, if you are writing about a time when your mother read you a story, your primary audience might be your mother. You will also have a secondary audience of your classmates and me.
Genre: The genre, while in a typed format, should reflect your audience and your purpose. For example, you might consider using a letter format to write to an influential teacher.
Stance: Your stance should be one that reflects your experience, and purpose. If your audience is familiar, your stance will most likely be informal.
Media/Design: For a typical paper, the design should reflect an essay format. However, depending on genre, design might differ. You may use textual design to reflect purpose, audience, etc.
Task: You will write about this event in the form of a narrative paying particular attention to specific details in order to make the story come alive for the reader. The writer of a literacy narrative not only tells the story of the event, but also discusses a larger significance to that event as an adult looking back at the event (writer commentary).
The Term Paper on In writing a narrative essay
Include sensory and emotional details, so the reader will experience the story, not just read about it Have the story support the point you are making, and make reference to that point in the first sentence. Write in the first or third person Descriptive Descriptive essays have text which describes traits and characteristics of people, objects, events, feelings, etc in intricate detail. Whatever ...
With each draft after the first you must turn in:
1) The previous draft(s).
(i.e. With draft two, you also turn in draft one.)
2) Peer Review sheets.
With the polished draft, you must turn in all drafts, peer review sheets, and invention activities.
Possible ideas:
– an English teacher – a great one, or a really bad one; we have all had them! – a writing assignment that provided insight
– learning to read
– reading to someone else or watching someone else learn to read – teaching someone to read
– writing an important or emotional piece of writing
– helping someone write an important document
– your own personal writing (journal)
Topics students have done in the past:
– struggling to find a topic for a literacy autobiography – helping a friend with dyslexia and other reading disabilities do her homework – filling out unemployment forms for an illiterate neighbor
Important Features:
– Remember that this is not just a retelling of the event; draw the reader into the moment by your use of description, narration, dialogue, or other techniques. – Remember to reflect on the event and its significance in your life. – Remember to explain how the event affected you then and how it still affects you today.
Format Requirements:
– 2 page minimum (typed, double spaced, default margins, Times New Roman font size 12 or equivalent) – Include name, date, and draft number single spaced in upper left hand corner – Stapled in upper left hand corner
Grading: See attached Rubric
Strong
Purpose: The narrative meets a clearly defined purpose (e.g. to persuade, inform, delight).
The purpose is compelling because it goes beyond simply completing the assignment.
Audience: The narrative is addressed to a clearly defined and appropriate audience – readers with a stake in the topic who would benefit from reading the narrative.
The Essay on Specific Purpose To Persuade My Audience To Eat A Healthy Diet
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to eat a healthy diet I. Introduction 1. Attention Getter: When you think of someone happy, successful, beautiful which image comes to your mind? An image of someone tired, overweight, sweaty, who is sitting in front of TV with a bowl of potato chips and a large glass of cola? Probably not. Most of us visualize a healthy person as someone who is active, ...
Persona: The writer’s prose establishes a consistent and appropriate relationship with readers – one that is formal or informal; intimate or distanced; calm, angry, sarcastic, concerned.
Development: The writer develops one or a few incidents to a degree appropriate to purpose and audience – a degree that includes specific details and writer commentary.
Organization: The narrative is organized in a manner appropriate to purpose and audience. The narrative presents a clear organization pattern that helps readers comprehend the writer’s message.
Style: The prose is engaging, clear, and coherent. Word choice is appropriate, and sentences generally flow from one to another.
Readability: The prose is free of distracting errors in grammar, mechanics, and spelling.
Revision: Substantial revision has taken place in between all drafts.
Adequate
The narrative meets a clearly defined purpose (e.g. to persuade, inform, delight).
But the purpose is less compelling because it is geared primarily toward completing the assignment. The narrative is addressed to a clearly defined but less appropriate audience – readers with little or no stake in the topic or who will find the narrative to be trite. The writer’s prose establishes a relationship that is usually consistent, but that may shift inappropriately at one or two points.
For the most part, the writer develops one or a few incidents to a degree appropriate to purpose and audience. But one or two important details or bits of commentary will be missing, or unnecessary details will be included. The narrative is generally organized in a manner appropriate to purpose and audience. But a few elements appear in places that weaken the writer’s purpose, or unnecessary repetition may detract from a writer’s sense of coherence.
The prose is generally clear and coherent. Word choice is generally appropriate, but a few inappropriate words weaken the prose. A few sets of sentences may be choppy, disrupting flow. Although the prose is free of sentence-level errors (e.g. comma splices, fused sentences, fragments) it may contain a few obvious mechanical or spelling errors. A good amount of revision has been done between one set of drafts (i.e. from draft one to draft two, but not from draft two to draft three).
Essays Writers Chose Evidence Audience
Develop a list of qualities that are representative of good writing and explain why you chose each. Writers purpose: I chose the writers primary goal is to accommodate the audience based on the audiences experience, motivation, assumptions, education, reading habits, and preferences. Some common purposes for reading on the job include: 1. To gain information necessary for the readers job ...
Weak
The narrative meets no clearly defined purpose, or it may switch purposes unexpectedly. The writer seems only to have submitted something to complete the assignment. The narrative has no clearly defined audience. The prose may imply inappropriate shifts in audience. The writer’s prose establishes a relationship that is often inconsistent, that shifts inappropriately at more than a couple points. The writer generally fails to develop one or a few incidents to a degree appropriate to purpose and audience. Or the writer presents too many incidents without a clear focus. The narrative is organized in a manner generally inappropriate to purpose and audience. More than a few elements appear in places that weaken the writer’s purpose. Unnecessary repetition detracts from a writer’s sense of coherence. The prose is unclear in more than a couple of places. It may also be choppy in more than a few places. The prose contains distracting sentence-level errors. It may also contain more than a few obvious mechanical or spelling errors. No apparent revision has taken place.