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The Writing Process and The Literacy Narrative
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The final draft of this paper is worth 20% of your total course grade. Please remember that no secondary (library or internet) research is needed to write this paper, that plagiarism will result in failure, and that in order for a paper to be considered it must be at least five paragraphs and 500 words, contain fewer than three deviations from Edited Written Standard English, and must respond to the specific assignment. *
Literacy Narrative Notes
If you have read my lecture on how to write a five paragraph essay as well as Chapter 4 of The Wadsworth Handbook, then you know that the best writing results when you take the time to go through each step of the writing process.
What is your typical writing process? What kinds of writing challenges have you had to face in your life? How did you approach them? Was your approach successful?
Your first paper assignment is to write a Literacy Narrative, which is an autobiographical narrative essay that details educational experiences in order to make a point.
An autobiographical essay is a personal essay, so it has to be about YOU, it has to be written in the first person (I) and it has to tell a story about your experiences with reading, writing, or …show more content…
Getting started:
PLAN: The first step of the writing process is the planning stage. Pre-writing activities are the focus of this stage of the process. Use the brainstorming prompts in the instructions to spark ideas or free write on the subject of your own education for fifteen minutes or so to see what you come up with. Once you have a point of focus, you need to formulate a working thesis. The thesis for a narrative essay is the narrative theme or narrative point. It is not enough to tell a story--there has to be a reason for telling it, an insight you want to communicate, a serious point you want to make.
SHAPE: Once you know your specific focus and main idea, you can begin to organize the support for the paper. A typical sequence for an autobiographical narrative