THE PURPOSE OF THIS ASSIGNMENT
A personal essay explores the writer’s experiences and observations regarding a particular topic A narrative essay uses elements of storytelling (like characterization or scene) to communicate ideas. A
personal narrative essay can tell different stories about the writer’s experiences to reflect on a specific topic and draw conclusions.
“read,” evaluate, and otherwise engage with all kinds of different media This includes advertisements, audiobooks, books, comics, films, memes, music, television, and so much more
Media literacy matters because we all engage with media to find information and to communicate
with others
your own experiences with specific media that hate impacted four perspectives, It asks rou to reflect
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our course readings. It also atks tou to practice some basic elements of academic writing at the
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Overall, the personal narratite should help develop your media literacy and help prepare rou
for the thetorical analysis essay
CHOOSING YOUR TOPICS
Choosing specific media experiences to wnte about for this essay can be challenging I encourage
you to use the Unit 1 readings as a space to brainstorm and discuss nour ideas well before rou hate
to start drafting the essat:
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