Ashley, Alexandra, and Abigail all had literacy narratives that have a similar theme, yet they don’t fit under any of the categories that Alexander outlines in her paper. All three of these narratives, and more, have a common theme of being separated or victimized by society, and as a result turn to literacy as a … [More…]
This type of narrative doesn’t quite fit into Alexander’s outline. Most people would categorize it under the “Victim” category, but Alexander defines it as “a victim of negative literacy experiences, in or out of school; casts blame for negative literacy experiences; [or] discusses how someone took the fun out of reading and writing” (615). This … [More…]
CLAIM (main idea) – What’s the paragraph going to be focused on? Prodigy narratives tend to also be victim narratives INTRODUCE QUOTE – Establish a little context for the quote, through a full sentence introduction, a signal phrase, or a clause that works to set up an embedded quote. (Resources: TLS E4; TSIS, CH3) … [More…]
The literacy acquisition that I am interested in pursuing is that the child prodigy narratives tend to be negative ones. People that write about loving to read or write as a child also tend to have a negative story or outcome while writing their literacy narratives. Alexandra White’s Comfort: Child Prodigy Narrative – Positive Kayla … [More…]
The Long, Quiet Hallway: Q4: Mrs Russell was probably worried about Lindsay, how she lagged behind the rest of the class while reading. She was trying to help in the way she thought was best. Mrs. Silver and Mr. Johnson were also just doing their jobs. They were trying to get Lindsay up to school … [More…]
Kayla Victim Writing “When asked to reflect on past experiences in the confines of the literacy narrative, they remember these experiences that haunted them and took away their freedoms” (Alexander, 618) “Then I got to high school an every bit of confidence that I had about writing was stripped. Freshmen year of high school my … [More…]
This one is about a relationship between Alexander and Kayla This one is a question to Kayla. She didn’t make it clear in the beginning which topic she was going to focus on for her narrative. This is a question to Sam. He didn’t give very much context to the readers, so we are left … [More…]
Introduction: I didn’t have to change much in my intro. I only had to add a section explaining what IMRaD is, and how it relates to Gee and Haas. Evidence and Explanations: I didn’t add any evidence, but I did add explanations. I needed to add some explanations, because I was lacking in connecting Haas … [More…]
Coordination “ IMRaD stands for Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, And, Discussion, and was outlined by environmental scientists Nair and Nair, as well as the Carnegie Mellon University.” This works because it connects two sentences together, without making one idea more important than the other. These two sentences are related to one another, but aren’t … [More…]
Original: A large part of scientific Discourse is the formatting of scientific papers. One of the “things” that Gee mentions is Practices or Activities. These practices are “socially recognized and institutionally or culturally supported endeavor(s) that usually involves sequencing or combining actions in certain specified ways” (Gee, 32). In saying this, Gee is saying that … [More…]
