After reviewing the criteria for the Literacy Narrative assignment, I think that it will be a good challenge for me, especially since it'll be written like a story or narrative, but also at the same time will be structured and guided. What stands out is the fact that I will basically be telling the story of how I learned to write in a more in-depth fashion than in the first Writer's Journal. What concerns me, however, is that I've only ever used e-mail as a form of communication, so it could get tricky when attempting to answer the task that tells me to describe a significant encounter I have had with written communication. I'm excited about the chance I will have to explain, with detail, the experience I had when I first started writing, and how it compares to me now, years later. I think it will be a very enjoyable writing experience.
E-mail is certainly the most useful communication literacy in my life now. I taught myself how to do it, as was with the writing of novels or fictional stories, because writing an e-mail is just a more casual form of writing a story, and you can't really teach anyone to write any sort of document, whether it's an email or a story. I don't use any other communication mediums because I already feel comfortable with what I have, and I don't need to go out looking for more. Email is important to me because I use it regularly (not every day, but perhaps every few days) and without it, I wouldn't be able to communicate with other people at all, unless I decided to switch to another form of communication literacy, which I think would be especially tricky for me, because I'd have to change my writing style and tone when communicating to the point where it might even affect my more formal writing, such as stories, MLA papers, or even assignments like the ones in this course.
I think the reason why I was able to learn how to write an email so quickly was because I had prior knowledge in the writing field--I had been writing stories: perhaps not books at that time, but short, 250-word tales that helped to guide me along in discovering new communication forms, such as the email. But other than that, I think I mostly taught myself. And it almost happened overnight, too--one moment I was still writing stories only, and the next I was starting to compose emails. In the very beginning, of course, my email-writing skills weren't very good; there were grammar errors and spelling errors and things like that. But over time, it started getting better, and it brought me to where I am right now. For that reason, I feel that it's very important that someone learns to write proficiently, because the foundation you get from knowing how to write will allow you to excel in other communication forms as well.
And that's all for the Writer's Journal #2.
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