Describe someone who taught you to read or write and persuade me of this persons significance in your life as he or she relates to literacy.

As you begin this essay writing process, reflect on your experiences and attitudes about reading and writing. Some of us have negative early experiences with reading and writing that have affected the ways we feel about reading and writing as adults. For others of us, reading and writing are treasured skills that come out of a childhood fascination with language and selfexpression. Regardless of our backgrounds, our ideas of literacy often become deeply ingrained as good or bad without much thought from us as to how those views came to be. As a result, many of us have definitions of literacy of reading and writing that could benefit from a thoughtful and honest close selfexamination.
Topic Choices: please choose ONE of the following to write your essay on:
Narrate an early memory about writing or reading that you recall vividly. Then persuade me of this event’s significance in your life.
Describe someone who taught you to read or write and persuade me of this persons significance in your life as he or she relates to literacy.
Identify a book or other text and persuade me of its significance for you in your reading and writing.
Describe an object and explain how it represents an important moment in your reading/writing development.
Key elements of this essay:
A welltold story. Bring your narrative to life by using concrete and vivid details. Details can bring a narrative to life for readers by giving them vivid mental images of the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures of the world in which your story takes place.
Narratives significance. Make clear why the incident you narrate matters to you now by explaining its significance.
Well-organized. Whatever prompt you pick, please write a five-paragraph essay with an attention-grabbing introduction, a clear thesis, well-developed body paragraphs, and an effective conclusion. Remember the essay structures from ENG 111.
Use concrete, vivid descriptions and focus on a specific event.
Write 550-700 words, doublespaced, in 12 point font (Times New Roman). Any essay less than 550 words will not be graded and be given a zero.
Make sure to save your essay as a rich text format (.rtf) or Word document (.doc or .docx) when you submit it.

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