Literacy Narrative

This assignment is intended to help you understand your own growth as a literate person. When you write this essay, you might consider the following issues:
 

• Who was most influential in your development as a literate person? Why was it this specific person/group of people? How did they influence you?
• What would you consider some of the most important literate events in your life?
• Do you think you have different kinds of literacies? What are they? When do you use them? Why?
• Can you recount any events in which your ability to express yourself seemed inadequate (e.g. taking an exam, interviewing for a job, giving directions…)? What was the event? Why did you feel this way? What changes did you make in your life to remedy the situation?
• Do you consider your literacy skills better/worse than those of others? Whose? Why?
• Have you ever used your literacy to judge somebody else in a negative way? How? Why? Was it a conscious decision?
• Do you think your literacy skills will develop/change? How? Why?

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