Category: Unit 1

One ingredient to a “education narrative” is it could be a story that has taught you something and has had a big impact on you and who you are today and how you perform in school. It can also be about something that you struggled with during your education career. The narrative can be about anything you’ve been through during your time in school.

My concern is will be narrative be good enough. I tend to struggle to write down what I’ve been through. I know the story but I struggle put it down and make it sound “good”. I also struggle with picking what story I should write about, there’s so much that I can write about and I obviously want to pick one that will be interesting and one that I’m comfortable sharing.

I think a good place to start at is a scenario that I struggled to get through and led to me wanting to give up in school. This all happened between a year or two. I struggled with everything and didn’t think I can do school anymore as it was too overwhelming.

I think my education narrative will be my struggles with school during quarantine. I went through so many things and couldn’t seem to pick up anything from that time. I was failing and not attending class because I actually gave up on school as I thought I could not do any of it. I will speak more about this as these assignments are given and the essay forms. Feedback will be appreciated :).

I believe that when Mike Bunn writes “You are already an author.”, he means that we use writing skills in our everyday life. For instance, when I ask my mother for anything, it’s likely that I use persuasive writing techniques. Techniques such as knowing my audience and mentioning pros and cons to my point. Another example of everyday writing techniques would be the assignments I get in my classes. I have written letters, reflections, research papers, etc. I already am an author because I create writing and almost, if not always, convey a message through my writing. Like in my academic writing, I usually give a small peek into who I am, that could be the “message”. This “authorship” that I already have can help me in my college reading/writing career by allowing me to improve on my past mistakes and be able to understand my audience more.

Something I would like to use of Bunn’s in my own writing would be perhaps a somewhat personal tone. Bunn adds a sort of comedic comment on pg. 71, paragraph 2. “I was pretty sure that if there was any trouble I’d be running down the back stairs, leaving the patrons to fend for themselves. I had no intention of dying in a bright red tuxedo”. I believe sections like this, adds a somewhat personal connection to the reader perhaps, which can result in keeping their attention. I would like to add this to my writing more to keep myself as well as the reader a bit more interested.