1. Our projects should be “engaging the conversation” about literacy acquisition, so they should be speaking to Alexander/Brandt/Williams in at least one of these three ways: affirm, add, challenge. And you probably want to be doing at least two of these things. What do your peers think you might do here, based on the evidence you’ve provided in the draft? Is there other evidence in the narratives that you’ve left out of the draft so far? Be specific about what your narratives reveal and what you think your might say about literacy acquisition through that data.  NOTE: Work here will inform your “perspective” or thesis AND your conclusion.

Based on reading my peers comments, I think that I need to add more affirming and adding aspects in my literacy narrative analysis. My peers think its a good idea for me to add evidence to what Alexander/Brandt/Williams are saying. There is definitely more information that I could add from the narratives I used to explain how exactly hero narratives were discussed by the scholarly articles. My analysis reveals some of the information I want to discuss but I feel that I ca bring out some more topics and evidence.

2. Source introductions. Do your peers think you have enough “introduction” of A/B/W in the draft? Do you have too much? And what about your naming of the literacy narratives? Alexander offers little stories of her examples; Brandt offers richer descriptions so the reader has enough information to understand her analysis. In a short project, one should not repeat the details from the narratives, but the reader probably needs some description/context. What work do you have in this area?

My peers felt that I did have evidence of A/B/W but they think that I could go into detail more about each. I discussed the overview of each of their articles but I think that if I go in depth with what I’m saying about each of them, it will be easier to back up my evidence of literacy narratives. I think that there were times where I repeated myself using some of the same evidence so maybe by going in depth about each author, it will be easier for me to talk more about the evidence I want to show. I can definitely bring out more topics from each author and it will make it easier for me to back up my thesis.

3. Evidence. We must have actual passages from both our scholarly sources and our literacy narratives. The scholarly sources help signal the conversation you’re engaging; the narratives are your support for the ways you’re engaging the conversation. It is entirely reasonable to need to find and consider additional narratives, to need to dig more deeply into those one is using, and even to re-read parts of Alexander or Brandt that are relevant to one’s project but were not originally assigned to the entire class! What do you need to do in this area?

I think that I have enough literacy narratives to look at to help back up my claim I just think that I should go deeper into what I want to prove. I used kind of basic claim and evidence so I think that if I show that there is sufficient evidence of my claim, then it will make it easier for me not repeat myself over and over again. I found myself repeating some quotes and I know that if I go more in depth with evidence it will help me for the better.