Lit 1101 Narrative Essay
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Write a short essay about the impact of reading upon your life. A literacy essay explores ones growth as a reader. Dont confuse literacy with literature. The goal is to come up with a thesis that states how one specific text, or perhaps a series of them, or just the written word in general contributed to your personal development.
Introduction: You set a context for why its important to discuss the place of reading and writing in our lives. How has your experience in these areas shaped your values? What can other people learn from the story you have to tell? You may use a specific anecdote or episode from your life to illustrate your point.
Thesis: You state in 1-2 sentences your main idea. The thesis is the culmination of your introduction.
Organization. Writing about your experience becoming literate (learning to read and write), you will probably take a narrative approach, detailing your first experiences in school or your first memories of books or the first time reading or writing seemed to make a big impact on your life. You will want strong transition from paragraph to paragraph, and your paragraphs should be around six sentences in length to be fully developed. Your organization will probably be chronological, moving from stage to stage in your life.
Conclusion: Regardless of which option you choose, you want a conclusion that avoids summarizing what youve just said. You also dont want to say, In conclusion. Your aim in a conclusion is to place the discussion in a larger context. For example, how might those experiences be similar to or different from those of other individuals? How do you envision the role of reading in your life in the future?
Grammar and mechanics: Your paper avoids basic grammar mistakes, such as dropped apostrophes in possessives, subject/verb disagreement, arbitrary tense switches, etc. The paper demonstrates a commitment to proofreading by avoiding easy-to-catch typos and word mistakes (effect for affect, for example).
Presentation: Your paper meets the minimum length criteria of 750 words, is typed with a title.
