Month: November 2024

Read my Literary Narrative Part 3 Here Converting my literacy narrative into a comic and back into a literary narrative was an eye-opening experience. Returning to the alphabetic version after this exercise felt like stepping into a new creative space, armed with insights I gained through drawing. Distilling my narrative into frames taught me to […]

Dusting off its cover, my father hands me a tightly bound book. Its cold, Soviet-industrial print spelled out three bold Chinese characters: 红宝书, Mao’s Little Red Book. I knew instantly what it was—a relic of my hometown Beijing’s history and a symbol of resilience. For generations, this book rallied the Chinese through war and chaos. […]

Before creating the comic, my original draft was unorganized and difficult to understand. It started off strong but towards the end it was difficult to understand what I was trying to say. I could not find the words to convey the message I wanted my audience to get. However, after creating the comic I got […]

My reflection on the third part of my literacy narrative, the re-alphabetization of the essay.

I learned that writing is a process through the literacy narrative assignment, which emphasized the value of review, rewriting, and reflection. Over the course of the semester, the task helped me to hone my concepts and work at a reasonable pace, which decreased my stress levels and helped me create my best work. My perspective […]

I feel like this activity really helped me to understand my audience when I’m writing. Going from turning my pros into a comic, I had to really consider how someone who doesn’t know my story would interpret the images I was creating. This then leads me to realize that I do in fact need to […]

Since birth, my writing has been “controversial.” One of my earliest memories of writing is when I was told that I “shouldn’t do it that way.” Unlike the conventional method of holding a pencil—using the tips of one’s middle and index fingers, with the thumb for balance—I would balance the body of the pencil on […]