Cornertone Analysis

My literacy narrative titled, “Affinity for Reading”, helped me analyze and assess how I really felt about writing. Reading through my literacy narrative, I see how far I have grown in my grammar and mechanics and formatting. I remember after I turned the assignment in that I forgot to change the font to Times New Roman. I thought I was going to fail based on that formatting error. While I was fleshing out my ideas for the assignment, I sat down at Starbucks and just wrote any and all memories of reading and writing that I had. It was not incredibly efficient, however, I learned how to create more structured outlines as the course went on. In addition, I also learned to triple check basic formatting for each essay to ensure that each essay was as accurate as possible.

Cynthia Haven is the writer of an article called “The New Literacy: Stanford study finds richness and complexity in students' writing” that is a study based on the amount of writing college students do. She followed students at Stanford during their undergraduate years and the first year after that. She discovered that today’s students are writing more than any generation before it. Cynthia had the students she was studying submit all of the writing they did, academic or personal. She found that only 62 percent of the work submitted to her was for classes; the rest of the material was “Life writing”.

When a student is given the chance to cater their personal stories to the audience, in an academic writing piece; the writing itself will make a change and help that student step out of that "academy", if and when encouraged. As I read this section of the article, I was able to make many connections to recent articles we have read and

Through this creative writing class, I gained a newfound respect for writing. Writing had allowed me and continues to allow me to see the world through a different perspective; with this thought in mind, I decided I would no longer allow creative writing to be placed on the backburner in my life. When the outside world goes to shambles, I know I can turn to writing to help me make sense of what is happening and to escape life’s troubles even if only

This is a personal narrative that I wrote for my CSU application, and this piece helped me get accepted into Colorado State University. I wrote this piece completely outside of class during the first semester of my senior year. I didn’t take this to a teacher conference, but this is a piece that I am very proud of because I feel like the writing represents my person voice and not a character. However I had trouble figuring out how to put my thoughts into words, but I worked through the confusion and now my word choice flows very nicely.

Three cornerstone core values are vocation environment to live and work and family. This encompasses every aspect of a christian's life and calling. Vocation where you answer God’s calling and we feel fulfilled and contribute to society. Environment we live in and are influenced by. Family which we love with our whole heart. These values influence who we are and how we think.

In my creative nonfiction genre proposal, I stated that, “my [creative writing project 's] focus will be literary essays that address humanity’s universal desire for a sense of identity and belonging; these essays will be written from a personal perspective, containing anecdotes, internal conflicts, and external opinions” (1). A little over ten weeks later, I believe I have achieved this goal in my final draft because of the stylistic approaches and revisions I made with the help of the Creative Writing Seminar workshops. My final draft for the project consists of eight essays that address several personal experiences from my life. I discuss various subjects ranging from one’s origins to the meaning of I love you; while each essay differs

In conclusion, I learned the importance narratives can have in research and in a classroom. Although narrative research was something I was not familiar with before I can now see the importance of it. Narrative research can be used in teaching and within the classroom to better instruction and to meet the needs of

Mrs. Brown, my freshman English teacher, sparked my interest in writing as a form of creative expression, rather than the mindless exercise previous teachers had taught me. Instead of encouraging her students to write alongside formal guidelines, Mrs. Brown initially allowed each student to demonstrate their writing abilities through a classic narrative. Her reasoning: narratives allow her to know her students writing style, their strengths, and their weaknesses. It was this unrestricting and optimistic attitude of Mrs. Brown’s which compelled me to express myself clearly in my writing and disregard any inclination of forming an essay which catered to a specific rubric.

What determines the outcome of one's life? Is it our physical characteristics? Is it the amount of education we have received? Is it a pure stroke of luck? This question is one that is often posed in dramatic literature. Through dramatic literature, we can see that regardless of our initial circumstances, we define our lives through the choices we make. Once we understand this role of choices, we can fully develop the life we have been given.

The theme to my unit was Voices of Experience in this theme the two parts we learned about was speaking out and facing limits.In all the nonfiction,poems,and short stories the author would talk about their expereince about dealing with their problems and they also explain how they were facing limits while expereincing this problem.The way they showed that in all the stories,poems,and nonfiction stories the authors would write the story in their own form so for example in “I have a Dream” and “On being Seventeen and Unable to read” both of those authors tells us and explain to us how it was to face this problem in there own point of view.It also tells us how they felt about this expereince while facing it and talks to us about their feeling

I walked into my first day of 6th grade English class greeted by a young woman with a voice that easily filled the entire classroom. I listened intently as my English teacher introduced herself and enthusiastically described all the creative assignments that were awaiting us. As the bell rang, signaling the end of class, I excitedly thought to myself that this was going to be a great teacher who challenged me. After all, writing was one of my passions as evidenced by the endless notebooks and scraps of paper that blanketed my bedroom. As the first few days unfolded I was optimistic and excited. That was until the work began.

he/she is not completely satisfied. And he/she soon realizes that they may have made the right decision. As the poem continues, there are an abundance of themes that develop. Perhaps one of the themes that develop is the circle of life. Everyone has to make decisions in their lifetime that will define who they are, one day as part of the circle of life that begins as a young person until as an older person, life comes to an end.

Everyday we are all confronted with decisions- some as simple as what movie to watch, to the more complex choices regarding our education, careers, marriage, etc. We’ve all had to choose from different paths in our life - which school to go to, what to study-the list of life’s choices are endless. When we make these big decisions, we always weigh each side, even after the decision, many times in life people look back and wonder ‘what if’ they took the other road- unexplored possibilities of life. For every metaphorical road we took in life, there is a road not taken – the class we didn't take.

At the same time, my creative writing teacher at MCC decided to get creative and actually assign us something with some criteria that we had to adhere to. It was a poem, much to my relief, but one about a traumatic experience that had occurred in our lives. It being so fresh on my mind from my college composition class, I again chose to write about the accident. Here, another crucial connection was made for me. Two forms of writing had been presented for me; one that I associated with emotional and spiritual catharsis, and the other that I associated with boring school assignments about people and things that I really could have cared less about. The