Purpose: Create the narrative demonstrating growth thus far as a college level student developed from the application of reading strategies and writing techniques. A practice of the non-fiction narrative strategy written for academic audiences strengthens critical reading and writing behavior necessary for attaining sound essay qualities. An understanding of the deepening processes will benefit future reading and writing processes in other college courses.

Skills:The purpose of this assignment is to support your practice of the SFSW Chapter 8 Narrative writing strategy as you develop an personal essay gathered from your real-time tracking of your reading and writing transformations since day one of the course.

Task: Produce a sound five paragraph narrative reflection of your deeper understanding developed from your transformative reading approaches and writing experiences.

Reinking and von der Osten provide a prompt to guide the development of your narrative framework:

"As you read a written work, the views of others, the experiences they relate, and the information they present often deepen your understanding of yourself, your relationships, and your surroundings. In turn, this broadened perspective can supply you with writing ideas" (Reinking and von der Osten 30).

Considerthen reading and writing characteristics in conjunction with now reading and writing characteristics as you plan the essay framework, using the characterization resource along with my Narrative Essay Outline Guide, Template and Overview. Revisit the I-Search Discussion Checkpoints you posted throughout the course to recall real-time thoughts about yourself as a critical college researcher reading and writing about "science and technology" themed articles and views.

Planning Guidelines: Apply the Narration concepts from Chapter 8 as you plan your essay emphasizing what you learned while reading and writing about science and technology topics. A Narrative (SFSW Chapter 8) is written from a first person POV . Your thesis statement (SFSW Chapter 3) will appear at the end of the first paragraph. Focus each paragraph on a KEY EVENT (understanding of yourself, your relationships, your surroundings) enveloping a key understanding of your reading and writing practices. In the paragraph body, explain your indirect/direct characterization of your ACTIONS (looks, speech, thoughts, relationships, applications) while applying Reinking and von der Osten's reading approaches and writing strategies, which have impacted your understanding, your relationships, your surroundings.

Criteria for Success:

• Include an introductory paragraph ending with a thesis statement developed from Reinking and von der Osten's prompt and based on the Narrative Purpose as explained in SFSW Chapter 8. Follow the process explained in SFSW Chapter 3 for developing a thesis question: What have I learned from applying deeper processes for reading approaches and writing strategies?
• Include at least three supporting paragraphs in which you share KEY EVENTS about your transformative experiences (understanding of yourself, your relationships, your surroundings) while analyzing the Science and Technology topics: automation, energy, medicine, media, environment. Properly format reading approach and writing strategy quotations by applying PSM Chapter 33 concepts for working with intext citations.