September 2, 2021
Literacy Narrative
1. What I did:
- Finished the rough draft of my Literacy Narrative
- Read the Bad Ideas of Writing
- Looked back on the past experiences of my academic career
2. What went well:
- The text, “Bad Ideas About Writing” was helpful for me to look back at old experiences and see what my past instructors told me that were misconceptions
- Given such a prompt, I felt I had freedom to express my journey in writing
3. What was hard:
- Not much was hard this week, I had a lot of time to plan and complete the assignment
- The only that could be posed as difficult was probably looking back on all 13 years of my learning and see what previous instructors told me
4. To-Do List:
- Keep Revising the Literacy Narrative Paper until publishing (September 18, 2021)
5. Where I left off:
- A finished rough draft of my Literacy Narrative
6. How do I feel?
I feel for my first week of writing, I think I did well. I didn’t feel frustrated with any of the work assigned to me, I thought it was pretty straight forward. While writing, I didn’t feel I didn’t know something, due to it asking me personally about my writing journey and how it has impacted me, in which I show the bad ideas given to me throughout the years and how I went away from those bad ideas.
7. Maxwell and Dickman believe that “a story is a fact, wrapped in an emotion that compels us to take an action that transforms our world.” How would you define the term story? What do you think are the most important elements of a good story? What examples help support your thoughts?
A story in my eyes is when an author draws the readers attention to a certain problem, in which overtime the author writes in order to show the solution to that said problem. Good stories compared to other stories are different due to the fact that they display messages, in which the author places for the reader to find. This is probably the most important element of making a good story because, yes, stories are suppose to engage the audience, but I feel as though stories should go towards saying something after drawing the readers attention. Basically what I’m saying is the story should persuade an audience to thinking a certain way or doing something. Say for instance I talk about the wise man story. The wise man talks about you cant laugh at the same joke over and over, so why cry over the same problem. The message that comes from this story is that worrying on problems just wastes time. Seeing this this is a good story, in which we see a problem, solution, and a message that can be implemented into the real world for many other different situations. Maxwell and Dickman have a similar definition, in which they describes stories as “facts”. They are not facts literally but between the lines lays facts that should be implemented into life, basically a life lesson.