Literacy Narrative Essay

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Gabriella Routhier
Michele Tubbs
English 1301.181
22 September, 2020
Literacy Narrative Draft 1
The experience that has helped shape me into the writer I am today is my high school
writing, papers, research, presentations and the teachers that have helped me along the way. That
is important to me because I have never been a strong writer, so my teachers impacted me and
helped me a lot with growing, learning, and helping me find myself in my writing. I tend to write
weaker than my peers and I struggle with creativity in my writing. I have always stuck to a
guid/format or a plan because I had difficulty showing my personality and creativity in my
papers. My english classes throughout the four years I was there helped me grow and be
comfortable with my writing.
The first major event to shape my writing was my freshman year valedictorian speech
assignment. My teacher, the head cheerleading coach, was popular amongst the students. She
was not fair with her students, she favored the more popular and athletic kids over any other
students. She graded us harder than the athletes giving them easy A’s and for the rest of us we
had to work hard for the A’s. She assigned an assignment where we had to write a valedictorian
speech for our senior year selves. She planned to mail all the drafts , planning, and final drafts to
us during our senior years. I had received mine, and read over all of the comments she had left
on my rough draft. Although she was unfair and harder on us, she helped me understand where I
could improve and what things I could have added or subtracted in the comments she had written
on my paper. I then read my final product and was amazed that I was the one to write it. It had
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my personality and my strongest aspects showing through. Being a valedictorian speech it had to
be professional but entertaining. It was one of the best papers I had written because she showed
me what I could improve and what I needed to do to make the speech interesting.
The second major event that helped shape my writing was my sophomore year teacher.
She made one of the biggest impacts on me and my writing. She was a strict and not a very
approachable teacher. She scared a lot of students, but she got to know me and my writing. She
took her time to figure me out and to get to know me on a personal level. She scheduled a
meeting with me after school one day and sat me down and went over my writing and the way
that I think. She showed me how my thinking was different from other students but that it was
what made my writing unique. All year long she helped me with my reading writing skills and
how to trick readers to think that my papers were better than they are using more sophisticated
words and phrases. She helped me grow and learn new skills like analyzing and annotating to
better my writing.
The last major event that helped shape my writing was my senior year college readiness
practice. My english teacher my senior year helped a lot with getting ready for a english college
class with expectations of my writing and the expectations that the professors may or may not
hold to you. She also helped me get on a level with my vocabulary and my grammar that I
needed for college. She was very interactive and helpful towards her students, she offered a lot of
resources to help students with their writing and their focus towards their writing. She even
offered to help sign us up for workshops and meetings with writing tutors to learn how to write
more efficiently and more maturely.
In conclusion, I have been fortunate to have the support I have had to shape the writer I
am today. These experiences were important to me because each event impacted me and helped
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better my writing. I changed as a result of these events and the whole experience because each
teacher or assignment allowed me to grow, learn, and better my writing and my thought process.
It has also helped with my time management and organization when I write. It is important for
readers to understand my experience because they can understand my writing and the way that I
think so much better because they know how I have grown, learned ,and how I add my
personality into the papers.

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guid/format or a plan because I had difficulty showing my personality and creativity in my

comfortable with my writing.

more efficiently and more maturely.

personality into the papers.

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