Discuss the roles of literacy in your life
The roles of literacy in your life
The roles of literacy in the lives of those around you
The ideal role of literacy education in our society
The ideal role of literacy in our personal lives
In your reflection, you should construct a complex and engaging argument/discussion about one or more of the topics listed above, drawing evidence from at least four (4) specific sources to support your ideas:
1. Your personal experiences with literacy (Please make this up)
-Motivations for acquiring your specific literacy and how that influenced your identity, or how it has given or restricted your access to power, etc.
-Significant texts that helped shape your literacy or the literacy of others (books, comic books, music, art, films, newspapers, video games, social media, etc.)
-Important people or institutions that sponsor a kind of literacy (parents, grandparents, coaches, teachers, athletics and art programs, schools, churches, jobs, holidays, governments, etc.)
2. At least one of the readings from our class (linked source)
3. At least two secondary, peer-reviewed sources from outside our class
This essay should:
Demonstrate your ability to use personal experience to make an academic and rhetorically effective argument about literacy
Demonstrate thoughtful analysis of the events that have shaped the literacies of your and/or others lives
Include and discuss the implications of a definition of literacy
Provide the reader with aesthetically engaging narratives that appeal to multiple senses and support the essays main argument/idea
Demonstrate college-level critical and creative thinking skills
Use at least one of the required course readings and two secondary, peer-reviewed sources to inform the argument
Adhere to the conventions of MLA formatting
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