Joeli Valerio
Professor Ewan
FIQWS
7 March 2019
Reflection of my Literary Narrative
When first introduced to the Literary narrative I found it challenging since it’s about a past event that impacted you. When thinking of what I should write, no book or literary event seemed to pop in my head. I eventually decided to pick a book that captivated me which was El Deafo. I connected the impact the book had on me with the benefits of knowing another language. I was successful in examining my literary experiences through my evidence since I started the main points from the experiences that were relevant to be told letting me see what won’t be necessary.
I see a change in my thinking when using evidence in essays, normally I believed that you quoted the evidence, then you explain the evidence in your own words. The changes in my thinking when using evidence in essays were using signal phrases. Signal phrases introduce a quote, summarization or a paraphrase. Signal phrases provide clarity and introduce the reader to the evidence. How I will use critical thinking to effectively help me in future assignments is they will have analyzation, and decipher the meaning of texts, and have logic. Critical thinking will effectively help me in future assignments have more clarity, decide what information is relevant and allow me to analyze and evaluate ideas.
Furthermore the literary narrative and the introductory letter were two assignments that were very different but have a strong connection to the writers. How the introductory letter helped me prepare for the literary narrative is in the introductory narrative you had to explain how the academic accomplishments affected you as well explain the importance of two majors. In the literary narrative, the prompt was to explain literary accomplishments and the impact on us. For both, the assignments you had to explain the impact for introductory letter the skills and majors had in you and for the literary narrative the impact the literary experience had on you connecting both assignments. The MLA format in the introductory letter were familiar to what we used in the literary narrative. For example I centered the title, double spaced, the pages were numbered with our last name and lastly I tabbed in both narratives. The similarity I noticed in both narratives was subjective speaking. I used “I”, “my” indicating that I wrote in subjective language. There were many differences, such as the format of how the essays were. The literary narrative had an introduction, four body paragraphs and a conclusion. The introductory letter was formatted as a letter and had a introduction body paragraphs and a conclusion. Another difference found was the ideas were implemented in both the narratives were not alike. Lastly, in the introductory, I was introducing myself while in the narrative I was telling a story.
Additionally, my process when writing the literary narrative was challenging. I relied on both past and new approaches. How I succeeded in employing the approaches is that I used past approaches adding what I did as well in our introductory letter. I approached my ideas in the literary narrative by analyzing my main ideas and explaining its purpose. Another past approach I employed in this assignment is using a hook. A hook captures the reader’s attention and when I approach an essay those are one the many things that come in mind. The new approaches could have been using signal phrases when citing evidence. In other assignments, I used Chicago Manual style and cited evidence by putting footnotes. In this essay, I learned to introduce evidence, using signal phrases, a technique that will be very helpful for future assignments. I produced then assemble my paper. I had all my ideas in a piece of paper explained to them and explained the impact. I then assembled where all my ideas go chronologically. I experienced missteps where I didn’t know how to connect one experience to the other. As I moved forward in my essay I eventually connected them. How I learned about the processes is how to clearly explain ideas and what is relevant in the essay, my processes are developing allowing me to see what should be written and what shouldn’t. I’ve seen a change in my writing. I’m beginning to cut out extra information that’s not relevant or connected to ideas in the essays and how to properly explain the evidence.
Indeed, the review process was very helpful. How I responded to my peer’s suggestion is I took them all into my essay and it allowed me to see the errors I have done. The suggestions I adopted were two important ones my partners helped me see. She explained that in some sentences were syntax giving me feedback allowing to read thoroughly the sentences, secondly putting things in chronological order. Putting things in chronological order will make the writing make sense and will make you connect all the events that lead you to the final result. What review and proofread strategies I used is I read my paper out loud and I looked over my sentences to see the wording. Reading my paper out loud allowed me to notice the grammatical errors as well irrelevant information to be cut out. Looking over my sentences allow me to see if the wording makes sense. Sentences are the components of an essay which if they don’t make sense your essay doesn’t make sense. What I learned from my writing while proofreading is I need to review it more than once. My writing does need improvement such as the grammar clarity, amount of information given, syntactical sentences, etc. Proofreading has been a technique that has taught me my errors and what shouldn’t be done next time I write an essay. Overall this literacy narrative allowed me to see what small event can impact you in the future for the greater.
