Composing Literacy

 Literacy narrative: A multifaceted exploration of yourself as a writer.

 Rhetorical situation: The term used to emphasize the fact that writing is social and
purposeful. The rhetorical situation includes four interrelated factors:
Why? Your purpose for writing
Who? The audience you are addressing
What? The genre or type of text you are writing
How? The medium in which your text will be read.
 Genres: ways of categorizing texts
 Basic features: Each genre has a set of conventions readers expect texts in that genre to
use.
 “How can I tell what I think,” the novelist E. M. Forster famously wrote, “till I see
what say?”
 To learn to write, as Stephen King explained, “you must do two things above all
others: read a lot and write a lot.”
 Essayist Dave Barry describes his typical writing process this way: “It’s a matter of
piling a little piece here and a little piece there, fitting them together, going on to the
next part, then going back and gradually shaping the whole piece into something.”