Explain how your past reading and writing experiences shaped your literacy today?

Explain how your past reading and writing experiences shaped your literacy today?
Now that you’ve read some examples of literacy narratives, watched the Cynthia Selfe video and done some of your own reflection, you’re in a good position to put this into a useable form for yourself by writing a literacy narrative: a story about your own literacy development that links the past, the present, and the future.
Write a literacy narrative that details important moments or trends in your own literacy development. It can be a person who inspired you as in a sponsor of your literacy and many other things. It is not an autobiography. Explain how this past has shaped you in the present, and imagine how your literacy will develop in your future. It’s better to focus on 1-2 important moments or an important trend than try to narrate your entire timeline.
Specifications
About 3-4 pages in revised, proofread text. Make it lively, honest, interesting, and unique. Using “I” is definitely ok here because you are writing about yourself.
You do not need to use texts from the course or elsewhere, but if you do, make sure to cite them in-text in MLA
You should have an original title.
MLA format
Sources: 1-2 As part of your exploration and presentation of your literacy narrative, you are required to cite at least two of our course readings. Use these to frame your central finding and to relate to the other authors. Knoblauch, Brandt and any of the other readings can be used to inform your audience(the academic audience) what literacy means in this essay’s context.
Quotes 2-3
Quotes: 3 . Refer to the readings that inspired your thought process or helped clarify your literacy narrative.
Vocabulary: narrative-stories, usually 1st person, analysis-to look closely
Invention, Research, and Analysis: Start your literacy narrative by considering your history as a reader and writer. Try to get at what your memories and feelings about writing/reading are and how you actually write/read now. Do not make bland generalizations (I really love to write), but go into detail about how you learned to write/read. Mine your memory, thinking carefully about where youve been and where you are as a reader and writer. You might begin by answering questions such as:
What are particularly vivid memories that you have of reading, writing, or activities that involved them?
What sense did you get, as you were learning to read and write, of the value of reading and writing, and where did that sense come from?
What frustrated you about reading and writing as you were learning and then as you progressed through school? By the same token, what pleased you about them?
Have you ever used writing to change something in your life, or for your family or community?
Where do you think your feelings about and habits of writing and reading come from? How did you get to where you are as a writer/reader? What in your past has made you the kind of writer/reader you are today?
Who are some people in your life who have acted as literacy sponsors?
What are some institutions and experiences in your life that have acted as literacy sponsors?
Questions like these help you start thinking deeply about your literate past. You should try to come up with some answers for all of them, but its unlikely that youll actually include all the answers to all those questions in your literacy narrative itself. Right now youre just thinking and writing about what reading and writing was like for you. When you plan the narrative, youll select from among all the material youve been remembering and thinking about. The question then becomes, how will you decide what to talk about out of everything you could talk about? This depends in part on your analysis of what youre remembering.
As you consider what all these memories and experiences suggest, you should be looking for an overall so what?a main theme, a central finding, an overall conclusion that your consideration leads you to draw. It might be an insight about why you read and write as you do today based on past experience. It might be an argument about what works or what doesnt work in literacy education, on the basis of your experience. It might be a resolution to do something differently, or to keep doing something thats been working. It might be a description of an ongoing conflict or tension you experience when you read and writeor the story of how you resolved such a conflict earlier in your literacy history. (It could also be a lot of other things.)
Here are some of the premises that you will be working with in this research:
Writing is not natural (thus it is a sponsored phenomenon)
Writing is linked to identity and provides representation of ideologies and identities.
Writing is informed by prior experiences
Failure is an important part of writing development.

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