Personal Narrative
For my personal narrative assignment highlighting the discipline I received during my time as a varsity basketball player, I chose to make revisions that made the reading more comprehensible as well as cohesive for my audience. For example, I found that I had included either too many literary devices within my text or employed these devices in ways that were confusing. To create an easier read for my intended audience, I chose to omit similes, metaphors, or uses of personification that didn’t truly relate to my piece or that were used in an awkward manner. Furthermore, I also chose to incorporate more dialogue so that the audience would become more engaged with the piece and to ensure that the literary work was more compelling and not so dense. I also chose to break up longer paragraphs or phrases into shorter ones so that the reading audience found the narrative easier to read and not as intimidating. Lastly, to create a stronger connection with my audience so that they would relate to my anecdote on a more personal level, I chose to incorporate more details about my childhood and my love for sports so that readers could come to see and comprehend how my passions developed. All of the rhetorical decisions I made were aimed at creating a more comprehensible and compelling piece for my specific audience, as I wanted to ensure that the theme of my narrative did not fall on deaf ears.
Literacy Narrative
My literacy narrative focused on how my upbringing in an affluent community by a financially-stable family exposed me to a wide variety of vital sources and sponsors that allowed me to develop strong literacy skills. After reviewing the assignment, I realize that I need to thoroughly define all unknown academic terms as well as effectively introduce all of the authors whose articles I will be referring to in the Literacy Narrative.This allows the audience to better understand the points that I am trying to argue as well as add credibility to my own authorship. My main argument of the essay was that literacy sources sponsor our development for a specific gain, and that individual exposure to varied sources of literacy is highly dependent on unique racial/gender/class backgrounds. To make this point clearer for my reading audience, I chose to include more details about my own heritage and background as well as relate my anecdotes to the points that the academic scholars were making. In this manner, the literacy narrative would flow very smoothly, as the incorporated texts of the authors served to uphold and support my own claims and arguments for the impact of literary sponsors.
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