Garver 3 narrative. | was faced with a huge task so | began by looking at bills and found that we were spending a ton of money on fuel to run all the diesel vehicles on the farm. | started a month long research project into the production of the renewable energy source of bio-diesel. | spent at least a half hour a day for a month researching online, calling people, and learning the chemistry behind it. This was a great way for me to sort fact from fiction especially on the internet sites. Then | got all the materials to build my own five stage reactor and had to read and learn how to install all the various components which made me great at reading diagrams and then applying what | had read. After about two months the reactor was complete and | ran my first test batch and it failed. | then had to rework the entire thing and look for possible causes of the failure. Again this took time and | turned to the internet to find the causes sorting through hundreds of threads looking for explanations. | then corrected the problem and ran a successful batch. Word got out at my mother’s work when she rolled up in her truck smelling of french-fries. The chemistry department of Marywood University then asked me to present my findings to the college of sciences on earth day. | then had to write up a huge report and make up my own diagrams and put it all together into a neat and organized presentation. This was the most influential part of my literacy narrative not only because it was based on reading or i, but because it was based on the application of all the information that | had acquired about the topic. It was truly an experience that I couldn't have gotten by doing some research paper in school. Like most people my literacy narrative is fairly basic at the beginning but because of my hobbies and love of information, it turned into something that doesn’t follow the line of the normal everyday literacy narrative.