About the Literacy Narrative

I think I really just want to write about how I enjoyed writing my literacy narrative. I focused on how my early interest in creative writing (which I called a "subliteracy") led to the development of two more literacies that are now crucial to me--word processing and web exploration and posting. When I was really little, my dad would tell stories to me and my younger brother Kevin, but there was a twist--every once in a while he would leave a blank and ask me or my brother to fill it in. This included character's names, the creature that suddenly jumped out at them, or where they were going on their adventure. Honestly, until we drew our literacy timelines in class two weeks ago, I didn't even realize I remembered those stories, so first off I'm grateful to this project for allowing me to explore those memories again.

However, as I wrote, I realized what an integral part of my life those stories were. They made me love to write creatively, which made me want to learn to type and format using word processors, and then when I started posting my writing online I developed web literacies for working with HTML, uploading files, and using message boards. I've never had to write a piece about how I learned something before, and without it I never would have made the connections between the stories from my childhood and the skills that are invaluable to me now as a professional writing and English major. It's interesting how our own ambition to improve one literacy can make us develop entirely new ones even if they are just for the sake of efficiency in the first literacy.