Kovick / WRTG 120

Project 1


Project 1: Literacy Narrative and Invention Portfolio

Assignment Sheet and Homework Schedule
Due Date: Thursday, September 25, by 2:00 pm
Assignment:
For this essay, you will discuss specific moments in your own literacy development. You
have each entered this class with particular feelings and beliefs about your own reading and
writing skills. What specifically has led you to these beliefs? We are all readers and writers in
various ways. What does literacy mean to you personally? What are some of the important
moments that made you feel successful or unsuccessful as a reader or writer? Where does this
leave you now as a student at EMU? What are your goals for your literacy development?
Focus on specific events (time, place, others involved) that affected your literacy.
Recreate, through your writing, a snapshot of these various moments. Make the reader feel as if
he or she were there feeling the emotions that you felt at that time. Conclude with where you
would like to see your literacy go at this point in your life. Why is it important to you?

Guidelines:
- 4 6 pages in length
- MLA formatting: Times New Roman, 12 point font; double spaced; your name,
instructors name, course, and date in upper-left corner of first page; pagination with
your name in upper-right corner of every page except first; no cover page.
- You must include a title (NOT Literacy Narrative) centered on the first page.
- Essay will be placed in a one-inch binder (Invention Portfolio) that will include ALL
work done in class toward this Project. This will include all drafts and peer response
sheets, brainstorming lists, quick-writes, homework reflections, drawings, and song
playlists. You will be provided with a checklist closer to the due date.
- The Invention Portfolio must begin with a typed Table of Contents listing all of the
work collected in the portfolio.
- After the Table of Contents, you must include a Cover Letter reflecting on your work
for the project and how your work met the Course Outcomes (from the syllabus).


*Grading criteria on back

Kovick / WRTG 120
Project 1


Grading:
The following criteria will be used to evaluate this Project:
- Direction: Does the essay respond appropriately to the assignment? Does the
narrative clearly explain what literacy means to the author?
- Time/Place Specificity: Does the essay include specific moments (snapshots) that
illustrate the authors feelings about his or her own literacy?
- Development: Does the essay move from specific, important literacy moments to a
sense of where the author is today and his or her literacy goals?
- Cohesiveness: Is the essay well-organized? Does it flow logically without jumping
around from point to point in ways that do not seem connected? Does the essay
maintain focus on examples that are relevant to the authors literacy without getting
off-track?
- Care: Has appropriate care been taken to meet MLA formatting standards and remove
errors of conventions in the final copy of the paper?
- I nvention Portfolio: Are all components included? Does reflective letter discuss
course outcomes in terms of the work done for this project?
- Participation: Was the student present both physically and mentally in each class?
Did the students participation in class reflect an obvious completion of homework
readings and writings?