Category: Student Posts

This composition was very difficult to write. Aside from the time I submitted the page(about 15 mins before the deadline), I had a lot of trouble coming up with material to write about during the process of trying to write it. However, I think it worked out as I created a page that I think […]

Have you ever thought about reading? I mean really thought about it?  Right now, your eyes are darting across this text and conveying its message to your brain with minimal effort, but how did you learn to do this? If you want the official answer to this question, I’d suggest the internet. Perhaps Google. BUT, if you want…Continue reading »

In my literacy narrative, I used a lot of the answers to the pre-writing activity questions. It was somewhat challenging to try and piece out the answers together in a flowing fashion because I had ideas and thoughts spread out everywhere. The freewriting exercise was very helpful because it helped me not only brainstorm ideas […]

Crafting my literacy narrative wasn’t as easy of a task as I originally expected. I had to search deeply and recount the most important moments of my life and academic career. I found that spilling my thoughts out on a paper then piecing them together was the best direction to go. After reading over my … Continue reading The Power of Literature →

Prior to this experience, I consistently averted reading and writing in fret of my dyslexia. I demonstrate my apprehension in the beginning of the essay by noting that I anxiously watched Netflix until I recognized that I had to finish the assignment. Before beginning the essay I did not brainstorm, outline, or draft my work. […]

As a child I was never a fan of a reading or writing. I felt as if it was a waste of time and there were more important things to do with my life than struggling to express my thoughts on a paper or sitting down in front of a book while my attention span … Continue reading My Literary Journey →

Thinking of a specific moment or time that heavily influenced my reading and writing today was difficult. I repeatedly began to write about a specific moment only to quickly realize that I don’t remember much about that moment nor the longstanding effects of it. Beginning at an early age, my mother would read to me … Continue reading Literacy Narrative Part 1 →

As a child I was never a fan of a reading or writing. I felt as if it was a waste of time and there were more important things to do with my life than struggling to express my thoughts on a paper or sitting down in front of a book while my attention span … Continue reading My Literary Journey →

Growing up bilingual, I had to learn how to read twice. Writing my narrative made me realize the fact that I stopped reading as much when the process became difficult. For a few years, I wrote only because I had to, and not because I wanted to. I almost forgot how cathartic it is to just…

The process of writing my literacy narrative was greater task than I initially thought I would be. It was interesting to me how when I first started writing I felt like had no idea what to say, even though I was just supposed to write about my personal experience. I kind of felt that there…Continue reading »