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5/21/2014
UWRT 1101
Literacy Memoir Assignment
In life every person experiences many different Literacys some good some bad, some
that you thoroughly enjoy and others that just make you want to pull your hair out and scream at
the top of your lungs. Literacy is much more than just the ability to read and write, literacys are
everything that surrounds us in our every life. Literacy is a person's knowledge of a particular
subject or field in any aspect of life. I personally am a very diverse person that has many
literacys that I excel, but at the same time just as many that I truly struggle with.
My personal experiences in reading, writing, and communication are vastly different in
many ways. I can truly say that I am a awful reader, I read very slow and majority of the time I
have to re-read whatever it is that I already read because I dont remember what it was that I just
finished reading. I do believe that this is my own personal fault due to lack of effort from when I
was a child, I never would read assigned books or readings for class. When I would have a big
summer reading my mom would read the book to me because she knew that I wouldnt do it on
my own. I also just hate reading and am a person that would rather watch the movie. When it
comes to my writing abilities I feel that I am average with everyone else at my age and current
student level. I do have some issues with writing run on sentences and improper word usage, but
still a decent writer in my own personal option. My strongest trait out of the three is most
defiantly my communication skills. I can talk and talk to anyone even a complete stranger about
any and everything. I am not a shy person at all and I truly take pride in that, and I enjoy being
the center of attention everywhere I go. Being loud and outgoing like I am had made myself a lot
of friends and also a fair share of haters, I am a personality that either you love or you hate I
dont think there is much room for anything in between.
The literacys that I excel in is lifting weights and playing football! These are two things
that I love doing and have a strong passion for. Nothing in the world feels better than strapping
on pads and helmet and knocking the snot out of someone, I truly live for that. Lifting weights
also is something that I love doing it allows me to let go and just focus on going hard at lifting. I
also like how sexy looking I get from all the muscle building. I could always improve on
understanding women. I thought I had them figured out and then a curve ball is thrown my way
and I am right back to square one.
When it comes to my overall writing process I feel that I am very basic. I dont really
have any approach to my writings, I dont make an outline or any kind of guidelines I truly just
pick up and start writing whatever comes to mind at that point. I will reread over my completed
work to check for errors and misspelled words. Any revising that I would do to my paper would
be if someone else read it and pointed out my mistakes and at that point I would fix them. I really
feel that if I were to take the time and write out an outline to every paper that I wrote I feel that
would improve my writings in a big way. I also feel that if I could broaden my vocabulary and
use other words then basic commonly everyday used words I could write better papers. I also
need to improve on my spelling it is beyond awful, I try and use bigger words but cant even get
close enough to spell them for spell check to recognize them.
This semester I feel that this class holds a lot of great things to help build my writing
ability. I personally am not looking forward to being in it every day but you gotta do what you
gotta do. I am not really that excited to take this class considering I have already taken it but
failed due to not coming to class. I am looking forward to making an A in the class to boost my
GPA and get myself of probation in school. I also feel that I can really help the flow of the class
and the discussions due to the fact I already have been through this once.



Literacy Memoir Critical Self-Assessment/Analysis

The tone that I took toward the literacy memoir assignment was a very serious one. I tried
to be very straight forward and very informant with my choice of words, I tried to use proper
grammar and fully explain myself to the highest level. It was not a waste of my time it was a
very important assignment, I did honestly rush doing the assignment due to the fact that I was
only allowed one day to complete it but I tried to give a good understanding of the work and
display the highest quality of effort that I could give. This is honestly the second time that I have
taken this class so my attitude toward this assignment was already on a much higher alert then it
was the first time. I truly am taking this class and all assignments much more seriously than I did
the first time.
I approached this assignment with a ready and eager mentality! I have every ambition to
get an A in this class and, I truly wanted to give this assignment the best display of work that I
could display. I truly feel that if I were to start every assignment with the same mentality then I
see no reason why I cant make an A on everything that I do. I truly believe that I will see my
grades and quality of work improve greatly if I approach all assignments with the same attitude
that I had for this assignment. I just have to sit and down and go to work with the thoughts in the
back of my head that I have a goal, I have something that I am fighting for, and I have something
to prove. With that approach to any and everything in life I dont see how its possible to fail, not
just at school but anything in life.
From my reading and understandings of Bains work I would have to say that I am a
surface learner. I dont really get deep into anything school related not because I dont want to
but more along the lines that I just dont have the desire to. A deep learner takes a desire and
passion for something it truly has to be something that you want to learn and majority of school
is not something that I want to learn. But in other aspects in life I truly am a deep learner, if it has
anything to do with football or working out I truly am the deepest learner known to man, but this
is because I have a desire and passion in these things. I want to learn and be the best at these
things, and thats the drive that you have to have to be a deep learner in or for anything. With the
literacy memoir I would have to put myself in the surface learner category, simply due to the
simple fact that it is school work that I dont have any true interest other than passing with a
good grade being my only desire. But it is my secondary motivation to push forward with my
primary motivation in having good enough grades to play football. This makes it required out of
me to do well.
If I were to grade myself I would give myself an A-. I truly believe that I deserve an A
because I did all that was asked for the assignment and I completed it on time and in proper
format. I do believe that it is a lower A grade because I did rush the end of my paper due to time
constraints, but I still hit all key points and did what was asked in order to fulfill the required
assignment.
The only thing I wish that would have been different is having more time to do this
assignment. I felt that I could have written a better memoir if I would have had more than 22.5
hours to complete it. If I could have had at least three full days I could have taken more time to
develop a better more thought out paper and I could have taken more time to give better
examples and explain things in a more educated way.
I approach life with a head on Im ready to tackle to world mentality. I look forward to all
challenges that life throws my way and I always strive to win and be successful. I truly feel with
thinking this way day in and day out that I will be very successful in life. I feel that everyone
should have true go getter state of mind. I know that with this idea on things will translate to me
passing this class with an A and passing life with an A in every aspect.
I wanted to make all points very clear and I wanted to be firm in what I said. I feel that
the person that read over my paper had a good easement but was off in some ways. I put forth a
good strong memoir and I feel that all my ideas where clear and easy to understand in every way
that I intended them to be.
I got to where I am today by hard work and dedication. The road that I have traveled had
not been an easy one, I have had to work hard to get into UNC Charlotte. I did not have the
grades out of high school to really go anywhere, so I had to attend a community college in order
to transfer to this institution. Both my mother and farther are the two people that are to think for
my successes in school. They both have stayed on me and pushed me to do good, they would
deserve to be called my literacy sponsors. With every positive there always has to be a negative
and that would be my EX girlfriend Shaylee Kelly, she has hindered me from some much! She
held me back from coming to charlotte when I was supposed to come play football and took up
so much of my time from school friends and football that now that she is gone I have nothing to
show for all that time I didnt put toward to what was truly important.
My reflections on this assignment really brought to my eyes my true goals and made
myself truly believe everything that I said. I can acknowledge all my successes and grow from
my failures. In this class I am going to do great and put forth the maximum effort possible to
achieve an A.
I have given all narratives in my days but I would honestly say that I do not have a full
understanding of the true concept of the different types of narratives. I hope to gain a greater
understanding of all narratives in class, and be able to look back at my literacy history and see
my own mistakes and be able to correct all wrongs and become a better writer.












Writing response
I feel that you have a great understanding of the assignment and that you put forth
a good amount of effort. I think that you need to work on a few grammar aspects when it comes
to writing. I feel that you are a strong writer but lack a certain level of word selection. For
example when you used without my mommy you should have put without my mom or mother
it was more just elementary mistakes that is easily fixed.
Keep working hard I made a few notes and corrected a few things in your paper I
really feel that you have great writing ability and I really look forward to seeing what your
writings look like at the end of the semester.
*I did majority of my response on the persons paper that I responded to. I had writer #2