Brian Ortega

Prof. Robert Balun

11 September 2018

Reflection

In the course of writing my literacy narrative, I achieved a few course learning outcomes, one was to develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing. This took many steps. The first step was to read examples of literacy narratives in class. Reading these examples allowed me to find the right structure for my own narrative. It also introduced me to the vivid details that should be incorporated in a literacy narrative. Then I brainstormed ideas for potential topics for my narrative. My strategy involved a great deal of planning before I started writing. I thought about the structure carefully before I wrote much, this made my revision easier. I wrote down multiple sentences that could be included in my narrative and thought about where it would best fit. Multiple drafts were necessary for my narrative to be well developed. Every draft helped me improve. When I finished my narrative I read it out loud to myself to make sure everything made sense and was fluent. Then I used the peer review sheet to revise my narrative on my own. This made sure my narrative was a well-told story with an engaging introduction (hook), vivid details, influential characters, a setting, emotions, and a significance.

The second course learning outcome I achieved was to engage in the collaborative and social aspects of the writing processes. In class, collaboration played a big role in our writing. We posted our topics on Blackboard, this helped me consider my own topic. Even though, our goal was to do as well as possible on the first draft, peer review day helped me get others opinion on my writing. My peers found a few mistakes that I haven’t noticed and we talked about a way to rewrite it and make it clear. I benefited from my peers’ feedback. All of this assisted me on making my narrative finer.

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