Onwards and Upwards: My Academic Literacy Development and its Impact on my Goal of Becoming an Army Officer Though I am no doubt still a substantial distance away from possessing a professional level of academic literacy in English writing (I am not yet a doctor…

2. Have you ever had literacy sponsors who withed or tried to with withhold certain kinds of literacies from you? For example, did your school ban certain books? Have sponsors forced certain kinds of literacies on you or held up some literacies better than others?…

3. Drawing on Deborah Brandt’s definition of literacy sponsor, list as many of Malcolm X’s literacy sponsors as you can find. Which sponsors were most influential? What were their motivations? Norfolk Prison Colony’s Library: Dictionary, Mr. Muhammad, J.A. Roger’s three volumes of Sex and Race…

Disciplinary Awareness The summary of course material. Interdisciplinary Awareness There is a summary of course material, an explanation of the relationship between the disciplines, and a stated purpose to those disciplines. Interdisciplinary Comparison How the purposes of the disciplines are related. Transfer of Knowledge and…

Write your own explanation of how the “academic” and the “personal” interrelate. In what sense is your schoolwork personal, and in what sense do you bring your “personal” into your schoolwork? How does one shape the other? In my opinion, the strongest bond between academic…

  Reflective Tag: This collage represents the different stages in my writing development. The first picture marks stage 1, which is the development of convincing ideas that have the potential of persuading the audience. This was developed in middle school. The second picture, the puzzle…

Using Alexie and Petersen as inspirations for your reflection, how would you characterize your journey in reading and writing, with emphasis on the role that ERH 101 has played? What has challenged you? What still challenges you? Upon entering high school, I lacked a basic…

What do we need to hear to be successful in writing this paper? Specificity: Focus on narrowness in the essay and go in-depth about a few core ideas. I recommend not trying to cover too many things, otherwise the essay will most likely fall apart…

“Greg Mankiw’s Blog”: How Greg Mankiw Asserts Affiliations with Multiple Economics Discourse Communities From the birth of the printing press in 1440 to the continued emergence of digital media in today’s world, technology has played a critical role in facilitating the exchange of feedback and…