Category: Homework Prompts

    From what I’ve seen so far, the conventions of the education narrative genre are figures of speech, culture/background, there’s a setting of realization, discovering your peace/ a solution to your problem, and a personal connection/ information. A place to get started on my own education narrative is to recall a past point in my life where maybe I’ve realized the significance of education, or at a time where I’ve struggled when it came to either education or school. I could also maybe explain my family background and how most of them struggled when it came to education, but those who succeeded, I was inspired and motivated to pursue education myself. A setting could be in the classroom or somewhere personal. Using figures of speech is also key because to me, I feel like it’s appealing to the reader when you add some sort of element/ technique when speaking of something personal. Somewhere personal would help the reader connect to my writing better so I feel like it would be best to do that. One concern I have is manipulating my past, because of course I don’t have perfect memory, so I would have to put it in a way where it makes sense. Another concern I have is that I can’t recall any instance where the solution to my educational issues is related to poetry. It seems that poetry has tied in all of the examples we’ve seen so far, so hopefully I can use something else as my remedy. 

  When Mike Bunn writes ” You are already an author”, he means that we already have brilliant writing ways and ideas to be expressed. In addition, we can also say you are already an author can mean that we use writing in our everyday life whether it’s texting on a phone, writing an essay, or writing a letter to a family or friend. For example, before starting college classes I practiced how well I can still write since my family and I took a two-month vacation and my writing skills were not in any use. While writing again not only did I try to leave my comfort zone in terms of vocabulary and improve the way I could change certain words and replace them with higher-status vocabulary to get used to terms that are going to be used in college. I feel observing how others talk and use words plays a major role in how we can(ourselves) use words but with our flow and style. The authorship that I already have can help me in my college reading/writing career by allowing me to improve on my past mistakes in terms of the way I would write and understand things. Also, this will help me understand why authors make the choices they do and why they portray it the way they do.

Something I liked about Bunn’s article that I would add to my writing is to use the two reading styles which are to read like an architect or read like a carpenter (which are well-used metaphors). But what Allen Tate and Author David Jauss are trying is that when you read a story you are trying to figure out how the text you are reading was constructed. Also, something I liked from Bunn’s article is that we have to read to truly understand an author’s point of view.