8/3/2019 Project 1 - Multi-Modal Literacy Narrative - Part 1 Literacy Experience Account

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Course: English 1101

Instructor: Anthony Borrero

Email: Aborrero@uncc.edu

Project #1: Multi-Modal Literacy Narrative

I.  General Assignment Description: For this project, you will take the roles of a historian, and will

explore your own history through examining your beliefs and experiences with literacy and

composition. Like a historian, for this project, you will have to reflect , research, document ,

archive, and analyze various ideas, significant events, places, and objects which have

contributed to, or at times, hindered the development of your literacy and composition skills.

To complete this project, you will conduct four separate tasks:

  Part 1: Literacy Experience Account 

  Part 2: Cultural Domain Analysis 

  Part 3: Literacy Archeology Experiment 

  Part 4: Genretized Narrative Reconstruction 

Note: All products should be formatted with MLA conventions including an MLA Heading,

12pt Times New Roman Font, Double Spaced lines, and 1” Margins. 

II.  Purpose of Assignment: The purpose of this assignment is to allow you to develop a more

critical view of literacy and composition through engaging with and reflecting on the

fundamental components that have influenced your own ideas and practices. In addition to

this, the Multi-Modal Literacy Narrative will also allow you to compare your ideas and

experiences with those of others, and will provide an opportunity for you to work on your ability

to critically analyze various subjects, learn about genre theory, understand how to engage in

peer review, and of course, learn how to formalize your language and writing to meet the

standards of academic composition.

III.  Part 1: Literacy Experience Account:

For your first task, compose a piece in which you discuss your history and past experiences with

reading, writing, and composition. In the piece, include discussions of your past encounters

with composition (all forms and types considered), your beliefs and opinions of reading and

writing (like, dislike, ambivalent, etc.), significant details that made reading and writing

successful or difficult, as well as any specific triumphs, challenges, or disabilities that you feel

shaped your progress as a reader and writer.

Your piece should be a minimum of 2 pages typed (standard MLA format) and should be

uploaded to Moodle as a Word doc before the start of our next class (Please Make sure to put

your name as the file name). In addition to uploading your piece to Moodle, you should also

bring a printed copy of your account to our next class. In the printed version, it is absolutely

pivotal that you DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME ON THE PRINTED DOCUMENT . Rather than

including your name, please include the number that you have been assigned (please do not tell

others what you number is).