Compose a three- to four-page essay that answers these two questions:

1) What is academic writing?

2) How successful are you as an academic writer?

For this project, you are asked to use your own writings as primary source artifacts, meaning you should reference your own writings directly, give their rhetorical context, and paraphrase/quote from them. In addition, you are asked to use at least one reference to a secondary source, with that source being one of the Project 1 readings (you’re welcome to use more than one secondary source if you like). You should cite this source using MLA citation. As a way of getting started, you might want to review (and even incorporate parts of) the rhetorical analysis of your own writing that you did as Blog Post #2.

Keep in mind that your Blog Post #3 assignment (due on your blog by Monday, September 25th, 9:30 a.m.) is an annotated bibliography that includes complete entries for those three readings.

Also keep in mind your rhetorical situation here. The genre for your essay is literacy narrative (a narrative tells a story; a literacy narrative tells a story about reading or writing). The characteristics, expectations, and rules for a literacy narrative genre include use of the first-person, a personal tone, an attention-getting opening, the unfolding of a story or an idea about how the writer struggled with/overcame/still struggles with/thinks about some aspect of reading or writing. Think of the audience for your essay as the Baruch College student body. The purpose of your essay is to (1) examine the idea of academic writing and (2) explain how you perceive yourself as an academic writer. Your medium and design are your blog; think about how you’re going to present this assignment so that it looks good up there.

Due:
Full first draft: Wednesday, September 27th
***In order to receive credit for your draft, you must post it to your blog by the start of class and bring a hard copy to class***
Revised draft: Wednesday, October 4th (posted to your blog by the start of class)