Literacy Narrative Essay 'My Grandmother's Pearls'

Looking back on the semester and the essays I drafted, the one that stood out the most was the Literacy Narrative Essay. Even though me essay, “My Grandmother’s Pearls”, was the first piece of the course, it did help me learn a lot about my writing. With the purpose of assessing and reflecting on a personal experience having to do with writing or reading, this assignment required me to tap into a lot of memories. By doing this contemplation, I was able to feel like I discovered a directed audience as well as a specific point. Using the added aide of rhetorical appeals I feel like I achieved success in understanding the Purposes and Audience learning outcome. As I enter more writing endeavors in my college career, I know being able to identify

No matter the type of paper I’m writing, I tend to write personally. One reason for this is that I enjoy when people write things that almost makes one feel like they know them. This makes a goal for me to create pieces that will cause this sort of feeling. While being able to do this is important to me, I have learned how careful I need to be as well. I felt in sync writing the narrative because I brought out my ability to essentially write for my audience and make it enjoyable. In some of the essays such as the Researched Argument, I really felt I was going through the motions in writing it and because of that it lacked any major connection to the audience or myself. Prior to this course I couldn’t have identified this writing tendency as a learning outcome but simply a priority I’d learned to write with or for. Understanding a purpose for an essay sets up and constructs the piece entirely. With this in mind, I chose to write about a subject with a lot of purpose for me in my narrative. Brainstorming and thinking of directions for writing sometimes became challenging in this course along with any tendencies to mismanage my time, it became apparent which ideas set back the piece. Rummaging through my memories of reading and writing experiences, I instantly tapped into childhood experiences with my