Throughout the semester, students are asked to reflect on literacy and their own writing process through completion of the following assignments:

Summary of Literacy: After reading a few articles about literacy and unpacking its role in our academic life, you’ll write a one to two page summary of literacy. The key here is to identify an angle in which you’ll consider literacy. You may choose to find an outside source, but it is not required.

Why the Audience so Important, anyway:  Consider the role of audience in a text. Within your post, identify who you believe the primary audience is, how you believe the audience impacts the way the author writes, an example from the text that supports your assertion. Next, take a sentence, paragraph, or a concept mentioned in the text and rewrite it for a new audience.

Literacy Narrative: You will reflect on your own literacy in the form of a two to three page essay. This reflection will use at least three quotes from any of the readings done in class.

Literature Reviews: Two to three page formal paper that summarizes, evaluates, and synthesizes three outside sources. These outside sources should be related to a theme referenced in class.

Children’s Book: Complete a section of your own children’s book. This project must include three sample pages and a book summary.

Research Project: You will submit a completed research project that deals with literacy in some way. I am extremely flexible when it comes to how you can complete this project and when it comes to what your focus will be. However, the most effective and thoughtful projects come from careful planning and multiple conversations with a community of writers that can include me and/or your classmates.