Alisha Patel

Robert Arnold
UWRT 1101-051
11 September 2014
Literacy Narrative Reflection Letter

Dear Robert,
In writing my literacy narrative it was easy to see what I was trying to convey, how I
became literate in the nursing profession. However showing how I became literate in this
topic was a more difficult task. As I managed to master this specific narrative, I focused
on the techniques I manipulated in order for me to show how I became literate in nursing
starting from my writing process. As I was planning for this paper, I listed all in which
ways that helped me become literate in nursing. These topics such as starting with a play
medical kit to pursing my literacy even further by trying to attend nursing school were
vague, so I elaborated more on them to make them the key symbols that has led me in
becoming literate. By elaborating, this specific writing process helped me create my
drafts. Through the use of peer revisions, I was able to edit my first draft. By this
technique it came to my attention that I needed to include more dialogue. Throughout my
drafts, I was explicitly telling the reader how I became literate without including my
sponsors, which was necessary to my path of literacy. By using dialogue between my
sponsors, it enabled the reader to recreate the scene in order to show my
accomplishments through these interactions. Other revisions in this literacy narrative
included adding personal experiences with the floor nurses in paragraph 3. I added
specific events such as the questions I had while I spent multiple evenings with them to
show that I was becoming more literate than I was just from my family. This showed
difficulty in my literacy path, as I didnt know what the nurses on the cardio wing were in
charge of and what their role consisted of. The peer reviews were to my advantage, as my
literacy narrative was seen in someone elses perspective. Through this it allowed for me
to receive feedback and revise my paper in order to enhance on things that I wouldnt
have been able to pick up on my own such as making things clearer. Something that was
difficult to accomplish for this paper was showing how specific events helped me become
literate. One of the things that I liked about this paper is that it allowed me to compare
from when I was little to the point in my life now through placing the specific events in
chronologically order, in which showed me development as an individual. One of the
things that I dont like about my literacy narrative was not including all the details that I
could have. I could have elaborated much more, and used more specific events that had
contributed to my literacy as a whole.

Thanks,
Alisha Patel