ENGL106 Academic Composition Personal Literacy Narrative
Personal Literacy Narrative
Digital Story: Essay 1
English 106/006: Academic Composition
Your first essay will be a literacy narrative, and you will be required to tell a story about one of your past experiences with writing, reading, or a related literacy in a digital story of at least 450 - 500 words and a minimum of 7-10 images. If you wish to use more than 20 images, discuss this with Dr. Davis.
Literacy involves much more than knowing how to read and write. Literacy in any field requires being able to understand all the clues, the jargon, the specialized words and actions that are used by persons in that field.
As a narrative, the format of this paper will be a story. Stories are not developed around a central thesis that is developed as the paper progresses. Rather, they progress, typically chronologically, through a series of detailed incidents and dialogues that keep your reader engaged as well as express the significance of your story.
Format:
· iMovie (the software we will use in class) or other approved video medium
· Minimum: 500 words for final version of script and 7 images in the video.
· Storyboard: At least seven potential images and their order, with notes about discussion.
· A script: 500 words that are broken into sections for the images related. Any text that will be included in the video should be bolded and italicized. Like this.
· Audio files: A file of your script being read AND music for the digital essay.
· A bibliographic list: A list that identifies your images and says who took them or where you got them.
· A final draft of your script should be typed and submitted following MLA formatting with a final copy of your digital story, as well as the rough drafts used for workshops.
Goals of the Assignment:
· To explore the concept of “literacy” and its acquisition, development, expansion, and uses.
· To examine yourself as a reader, writer and learner, and to come to a fuller understanding of your own literacy and literate practices.
· To reflect on your literacy and literate practices so that you can reflect on the processes and approaches to reading and writing you customarily use, assess their success or lack of success, and weigh these against alternatives.
· To introduce you to the resources available in the Digital Learning Studio: including Audacity and iMovie.
· To introduce the need to identify sources and allow you to practice identifying sources.
· To practice revision.
Final Tips:
· Don’t try to tell your life’s story. Covering a large span of time will necessitate a lack of detail and a lack of depth to your story.
· Don’t expect the images to do all of the work—though brief, your 500-word script is the central element of your story and the piece that carries the most weight in grading.
· Do choose incidents that are important or meaningful to you. You will have an easier time communicating the significance of these incidents to your reader if you find them significant.
· Do take time to reflect on the events and examples you describe. Digesting them in thought will reveal to you those that are most meaningful and help you to decide what details are most important in the telling.
Peer Review:
Monday, February 9
Final Due:
Friday, February 13
Check off each item as you place it in your folder (make sure your name, course number, and instructor’s name are on the folder). All items must be present and checked before I will receive and grade your essay.
Early work:
___ Listing Significant Events.
___ Storyboard.
Later work:
___ Essay Checklist. Completed and signed.
___ Written reflection.
___ Electronic version of your digital story. Uploaded
___ Final Draft. (400-500 words)
ü Appropriate headers
ü Titled
ü Page numbers
ü MLA style
___ Rough Drafts. (original draft that went through peer review AND marked revision from Dr. Davis)
___ Peer Review. As completed in class.
___ Due Date. Turn in folder on Monday, February 16 at the start of class.
I, the undersigned, have reviewed and signed this checklist. I feel I have successfully completed the literacy narrative essay without compromising my writing strategies, researching techniques, or paper development by plagiarizing. This narrative will tell the story of a moment in a way that will help my reader understand how it influenced my literacy OR will introduce them to a particular literacy.