UWRT 1101: Writing & Inquiry in Academic Contexts I

Comparison/Contrast Reflection: Literacy Narrative Text vs. Altered Book

Minimum of 500 words
Due dates: On Tuesday, Sept. 23

turn in your completed Altered Book along with this
Comparison/Contrast Reflection
Purpose of project: To identify and recognize how different rhetorical tools (written text and visual
elements) require different strategies of implementation to successfully communicate to an audience
Assignment: For this assignment, I am asking you to step out of the details of your literacy narratives, in
their text and visual, altered-book forms, to focus on how they function as rhetoric. Take some time to
reflect upon how both text and visuals construct meaning and communicate that meaning to an audience.
Write about the drawbacks and advantages of both tools of communication.
As a part of your reflection, have a classmate and/or friend read both forms of your narrative. Ask that
person to answer a few brief questions after they view/read each of the narratives. (Useful questions
might be: What main idea was communicated through my narrative? What seemed unclear or did you still
have questions about? Is there something in one version of the narrative that should have been in the other
as well? Why? Etc.) These questions can help you to discover how each of these genres function.
In the body of your reflection essay, address all or some of the following:
Which genre did you prefer to use in the communication of your literacy narrative? Specifically, what
aspects of the genre were preferable? In what ways could both narratives be combined to produce an even
more effective multi-modal literacy narrative? Which genre did you find to be more
difficult/creative/effective/etc.?