Literacy Narrative
The first of the four major assignments I have completed in ENC 1102 is a Literacy Narrative. Through this assignment I learned the importance of literary sponsorship. Deborah Brandt describes a literary sponsor as “any agent, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy—and gain advantage by it in some way.” (166) Before this class, I had never given thought to how people have influenced my writing. In my paper I wrote about my High School teacher, Mr. Harrison, and the impact he has had on my writing style.
Genre Analysis
The Genre Analysis was the hardest paper out of the four for me to write. The concept and understanding of what a genre is (when not referring to a book or music type) was very difficult for me to grasp. Through this paper I analyzed the Oyez.com supreme court law website. Just from analyzing something through a "genre" standpoint, digging deeper than just the surface of something was a concept I have already began applying to other assignments in different classes. I was very proud of my Genre Analysis paper submission. All the hard work I had put into this paper was very much reflected in the grade I received.
Annotated Bibliography
The third major paper assignment was the Annotated Bibliography. In this paper I analyzed fifteen different journal articles all from the discourse community surrounding Political Science. In this discourse community, I chose the topic of political corruption and scandal. Out of the four assignments, the Annotated Bibliography took the longest to complete. Each journal article was around 20 pages with about 40 words per article that I had never heard of. However, I feel as if this paper has taught me a much utilized method of research and analysis that I will be able to use in college as well as my future career.
Literature Analysis
The last paper I had to complete for ENC 1102 was the Literature Analysis. In this paper I addressed the research Gap in my Annotated Bibliography with my Research Gap Proposal. This assignment, to me, was the easiest out of the four. The majority of the contents of this paper came from the Annotated Bibliography. However, with this paper I was able to put some of my opinion in it where as for the Annotated Bibliography, I had to stay objective. This type of analysis helped me when it comes to the organization of a paper. Before this class I was not very good at organization when it came to writing. But now thanks to this class and these papers I feel much more equipped to write a well organized paper.