Project 2 - Collective Literacy Analysis

Project 2: Literacy Analysis
(adapted from Writing about Writing pp. 346-348)
Main threshold concepts: Writing is influenced by identities and prior experiences &
People collaborate to get things done with writing
After writing your own literacy narrative, you will work to identify an overarching theme you
noticed from Project 1 and in your group discussion. Using course readings and other secondary
sources, analyze and develop a claim about that theme.
You have options for how you complete this assignment. You can create a website using Adobe
Webtext, write a 10-page paper, create a podcast or series of TikTok videos that are
informative, or present to me an idea of your own.
Rough Draft Due: October 30th at 11:59 p.m.

Final Revision Due: November 8th at 11:59 p.m.
Adobe projects from UofL students in other classes:

● Worst Senior Year Ever by DeShari Mack
● The Kentucky Tragedy by Rebecca Wishnevski
● Rangeland Sustainability by Foster Grant
● Mapping Norman Sicily by Jack Hardy
Follow these steps:
1. Identify the Theme and a Working Claim

● Read your group members’ literacy narratives from the group discussion board. Take
notes on trends as well as unique experiences.
● Look for similarities and differences across your experiences. Did everyone write about
or mention a similar idea, like standardized testing or reading as a child? How did your
group write about certain experiences? What’s the same and what’s different?
● Go deeper: Think about the reasons you have for these similarities and/or differences.
How do social, cultural, historical, or other systemic factors play a role? For instance, to
what extent do differences in group members’ K-12 writing instruction seem to be
shaped by how well-funded school districts are? Or, if group members’ families have
cultural traditions of storytelling, or debate, to what extent has that shaped people’s
views or practices?
● Decide on a theme you want to explore in your project. What seems the richest to
further explore and write about? Your entire project should focus on one theme that
you will more deeply analyze. Themes might include the role of technology in literacy;
hobbies or religion as literacy sponsors; motivations for literacy learning; privilege and
access; help overcoming literacy struggles; and battling stereotypes about one’s
language and literacy practices.
● Develop a working claim based on your theme. This claim should be argumentative in
some way and help you explore the ways that everyone relates to the theme.
2. Explore Secondary Sources to Further Investigate and Develop Your Working Claim
● Discuss connections you can make to the readings we’ve done. How do the readings
help you understand your and your group members’ experiences with the theme? How
do your group’s experiences confirm, further nuance, or challenge concepts in the
readings?
● Other published writers, including scholars and journalists, are likely addressing aspects
of your theme. Discuss what more you’d like to learn that can help deepen your
analysis. For example, do you want to find information about the prevalence of the five-
paragraph essay in U.S. high schools? Make a list of things you’d like to find out.
● Use what you’ve learned in the module to help you find relevant sources. You’ll need to
engage with at least 3-4 outside sources in your project.
● Use these outside sources to deepen your analysis of your personal experiences and to
help you nuance your claim. Perhaps they provide some additional context,
interpretations, or data. You may also find that your outside sources complicate or
provide a different perspective on your working claim.
3. Submit a draft. Your draft can be more like a project proposal that outlines the steps you will
take to complete your final project.
4. Submit your final draft.
Other Requirements
What makes it good? AKA Your Project Should:

● Be organized around a central claim.
● Provide plenty of detailed examples from individuals’ experiences, but also draw
connections between yours and others’ experiences.
● Use concepts in the readings, as well as 3-4 other secondary sources you’ve found, to
help analyze group members’ experiences and the theme you’ve identified.
● Be thoughtfully organized. For example, there is a rationale for the order in which your
stories are told and points are made to support your claim.
● Be thoughtfully designed. Do the multimedia you’ve used (e.g., images, colors, font,
audio, video) help you convey your message?
● Be thoughtfully edited depending on the conventions of the language varieties you are
using in your project.
● Paraphrase, quote, and cite sources appropriately in MLA or another citation format.
Email me with any questions, comments, or concerns.

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Project 2: Literacy Analysis

(adapted from Writing about Writing pp. 346-348)

Rough Draft Due: October 30th at 11:59 p.m.

Adobe projects from UofL students in other classes:

Follow these steps:

1. Identify the Theme and a Working Claim

4. Submit your final draft.

What makes it good? AKA Your Project Should:

Email me with any questions, comments, or concerns.

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