Due Today
Today the final draft of the Literacy Narrative is due.
Literacy Reflection
Now that we are all done with the first assignment, literacy narrative, let us reflect on the assignment and what we can learn from it.
Why did we start with a Literacy Narrative?
What did you learn about literacy?
What did you do well in your narrative?
Intro to Report
Reports are as diverse as all the classes you will take. You can write a report on a lab experiment, conduct interviews and assemble into a report, and even research a topic and publish it for the benefit of everyone.
Reports are a genre that you may be familiar with but not know it. Reports are what we have done since elementary school. Reports are produced by government organizations, websites, companies, universities, and even individual students like yourselves. A report can answer a question, explore a topic, review what is already known about a subject, or report new knowledge, to name a few.
There are a few qualities that a report usually has.
- Presents information
- Uses reliable sources
- Aims for objectivity
- Presents information clearly and well structured
For this assignment, I want you to choose a topic that interests you and you want to learn more about. It can be related to your major, future or current career, something you are familiar with, or something you want to know more about.
Topics
Focus on an issue or problem in society, local or national.
Focus on an issue or problem in your field or career.
Answer a question in a topic of your choice, special interest, hobby, or passion.
What It Takes to Be a Teacher Essay
Be Kind to Every Kind PowerPoint
Quick Write
What do you think is the difference between writing in high school and writing in college?
The Conversation
We have already learned two important concepts:
- Literacy
- Writing Process
The third concept is the metaphor of the conversation. What we are studying now, has a long history. People have been writing and researching everything you can think of.
For example, the conversation on how to speak well goes back a couple thousand years to Aristotle, Plato, and others that came before.
Everything you will write about from now on, needs to be based in a conversation. A scholarly one, a scientific one, a popular one. To know what has been said before, you need to read and research.
Entering the Conversation
We will talk a lot about approaches to writing and how to think about writing to help us practice the principles of writing.
It is true, of course, that critical thinking and writing go deeper than any set of linguistic formulas, requiring that you question assumptions, develop strong claims, offer supporting reasons and evidence, consider opposing arguments, and so on. But these deeper habits of thought cannot be put into practice unless you have a language for expressing them in clear, organized ways. (TSIS)
State your own ideas as a response to others that have come before. You are just entering a conversation that has been going on for thousands of years. You are not expected to know everything, but you are expected to begin to understand what others have said before and how to find it.
To argue means more than just stating your own position. To argue you need to enter into a conversation with others views. Then you can try to convince others of your position or just to see your position as valid.
Burke’s “Unending Conversation” Metaphor
Kenneth Burke writes:
Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before. You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally’s assistance. However, the discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress.
Intro to Research
Scholarly research is research that is published by people with specialized knowledge on what they are researching. It is peer reviewed, reviewed by other researchers and specialist in the field, and is generally trustworthy. Blogs, Newspapers, Magazines are not Scholarly but are popular sources.
ProCon.org No subscription needed. Good place to look at the main issues around a topic.
Occupational Outlook Handbook The OOH can help you find career information on duties, education and training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations.
Google Scholar Google academic database search. Great place to start.
Brainstorming
We read chapter 19, Brainstorming for today. We first need to choose a topic to write about.
- Build from lists
- Mapping ideas
- Freewriting
- Memory Prompts
- Search online for ideas
Come up with at least two ideas that you want to write about. They can be general now, they will become more focused as you begin the research.
Quick Write
What two topics are you considering for your report? List the topics you came up with in class.
Homework
- Read Chapter 2, Reading Processes
- Read Lev Grossman, “From Scroll to Screen”
- PreWriting 2 Summary of Grossman DUE
We started with a literacy narrative because it’s easier to write an essay about yourself and something you know about. I learned that every literacy is an important story. In my narrative, I think I did well in making the lesson clear. As well as adding important details to the story.
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1. I think we started with the literacy narrative because it was the first essay of the class so we started with something that we know to get comfortable with for the upcoming essays.
2. I didn’t know the definition of literacy was the ability to read and write
3. What I believe I did well was that I spoke well in the essay and gave discription about the essay
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I believe we started with Literacy Narrative in a way to open ourselves up to writing. Giving us a chance to express ourselves and be comfortable writing.
I learn that there is a lot of things I have learned in the past few years and how many thing there is still out there to learn. I also learned Litteracy is not just entitled to writing but to all other things.
I think I developed a good story to express my findings on how I got into reading. It’s a iteresting story I don’t tell others and it is one of my favorite memories.
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1. because the first week of school we embark on the journey of learning new stuff throughout the semester so it makes sense to start off writing something we learned in the past
2. writing a literacy narrative helped reminisce of the time i was learning and how far ive come
3. i think that i did well on putting the reader in my own shoes and painting a picture of certain scenarios in my writing
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We started with a literacy narrative because it’s a good intro level essay that doesn’t throw us right into the deep end of writing. We are able to write about something we already know so there’s nothing to study and we are able to show what level of writing we are at.
Literacy is basically anything we’ve learned from walking and talking to complex essays and math equations and everything in between. If you’ve learned it it’s a literacy. They apply to everything in our lives.
I believe I’m good at telling a story I’m pretty okay at providing good details and I can always find good images for anything. I definitely could use improvement on imputing dialogue into my essays.
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I feel like we started with a literacy just so we can have an easier topic to talk about. If it’s a story based on something we learned how hard can it truly be to talk about it? I learned that a literacy is meant to teach you something in the end or show you how to do something coming from someone with experience. In my literacy I think that the thing I did best on was explaining the details and trying not to be too depressing.
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I believe we started with a Literacy Narrative to get I stories out of our systems. A lot of story we talk about is told in first person point of view. Therefore, typing a Literacy Narrative in a proper format may have been an easier task for us to complete for the beginning of the class.
having a proper format to telling a story and having a lesson are important factors that I got out of completing this assignment.
I believe giving specific detail about what I do was very detailed. It may be one of the things I did well.
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We started the semester with a Literacy Narrative because it is in essence what this class will consist of. The literacy we are learning is how to write, so if we begin by learning what a literacy is and what it takes to get better at it, we will have already taken a big step in this class.
What I learned about narratives was that they can be about quite literally anything. They can range from learning to cook, to learning to drive, to learning how to be a better person.
What I did well in my narrative was make it clear to the reader why I was writing about what I did. I had a clear purpose to get across and I referred to it numerous times throughout.
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1. I think that we started with a literacy narrative so we can get a better understanding about what we are writing about in a specific area.
2. What I learned about literacy narrative is how to capture the audiences attention with my introduction and title.
3. I think I did well with my title, with my story telling & dialogue.
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1) Why did we start with a literacy narrative? We started with literacy so Professor Ramos could teach us how to post on WordPress. Therefore, teaching the class something new and progressing toward a ‘master’.
2) What did you learn about literacy? I learned that literacy is the ability to read and write. I also learned that it could be anything you learned how to do and eventually became the ‘master’.
3) What did you do well in your narrative? I did well on getting my lesson across to my reader. I also think I conveyed an interesting story for my lesson/ purpose.
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Diets
Plastic surgery
Anaerobic exercises
Aerobic exercises
College athletes getting paid
Politics in hip hop
Process to be a nurse
Personal finance
Taxes
Drug dealers
Social Media
Trump
Street traffic
Energy drinks
Body image
Prostitution
Human trafficking
Child brides
Mental health
Effects of nicotine
Death penalty
Jury duty
Government shutdown
Sports
Forensic investigation
Suicide
#MeToo movement
Gender issues
Firefighters
Fire science
Bullying
Video games and violence
Immigration
Drinking age
Disease
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