Author: Brian Tenecela (Page 7 of 7)

As we all have been exposed to the education narrative everyone has shared their own elaborative thoughts which weren’t so much on the positive side but that is fine since there are other people out there in the world who might think the same. However, this shouldn’t discourage us from learning from this type of genre because it is one of the many forms of writing and one that is primarily based on perspective views and experiences containing knowledge of subjects undergone.  As we have read from Mike Bunn in How to Read Like a Writer he shares his words of wisdom on the subject of writing. How powerful writing can be and his beliefs to the audience through experiences he underwent/faced. In the writing Maybe I Could Save Myself by a LatinX teen in Chicago he explains how he felt like he did not fit in with society. The LatinX teen explains his journey/experiences on how his being in Mexico would fix that issue but unfortunately, it did not. However, later through writing he realized how great power he had through writing to share with people through his poems and followed his mentors to higher extents. The third example of education narrative is The Fourth of July by Audre Lorde and how her racial challenge within her family made her overthink throughout her life up until the inappropriate encounter with the waitress who made a comment that the family did not take so contently. However, having gone through it Audre was able to better strengthen her ideas and morals in life. Throughout our learning of education narrative, the “ingredients” that have come across are the tone of the text, the perspective of the author, the style of writing, and evidence/resources used to back up their writing. A place I would say would be a great starting point for my own education narrative would be a previous experiences/harships where perhaps I learned something of educational value such as coming in for extra help, volunteering to teach others or to even something as basic as showing up to class everyday and write on it. An educational experience I’d like to share with the class that I’d like feedback on to use as my educational narrative piece is to never give up on your work wether it be school work or a goal you set in place for yourself.

Brian Tenecela

In the article How to Read like a Writer by Mike Bunn he goes in depth as to the importance of the choice of words a writer uses when creating a written piece.  How every sentence or choice of writing has a purpose. Creativity is endless all it takes is an idea and the rest can be written down. Hence when the author Mike Bunn in his article states “You are already an author” to the reader he is just reiterating the fact that anyone is an author. A perfect example of this can be seen in our daily lives and we just don’t notice it, for instance, when we judge, think or even start making goals and start making a breakdown step by step on how we will achieve that goal to even planning/thinking how one’s day will go. Even having a simple conversation is a form of writing, believe it or not, they are words that just have not been written down on paper. Keeping this in mind all that prior existing expertise will fundamentally aid your engagement in college reading and writing because that expertise/experience is already in existence. However, as great as it may be that prior expertise exists that does not mean we are all set to be professionals we still have to ensure our writing is organized and well formatted. That is where our professors will aid us in bettering our reading and writing altogether. One thing that stood out to me in Bunn’s article was when he was talking about a writing piece on Barack Obama and how the author used a quote to start it. Later a question was asked “Would you want to start your essay with a quote?” It made me think about how there are a vast quantity of writing styles and techniques that really make an author unique and some methods are great the whole purpose or main objective is just learning it and practicing it to perfection.

– Brian Tenecela