Original 1:

Within the literacy Discourse there are multiple things that can cause a change of identities and one of those is a literacy sponsor. A sponsor could be a teacher, coach, or, relative; they “are any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy” (Brandt 556). Many of the literacy narratives that I have encountered in the document Rising Cairn had a scenario where a student had a teacher in previous years that in some way affected their reading or writing and that set them back for years to come. Some teacher gave bad grade on work the student thought was excellent, some did not engaged with their students, and others acted unkind to the student. Some of the literacy narratives I thought showed this the best was “The Progress for Getting a Better Teacher for English” written by Hien Nguyen and “Learning to Not Hate English” by Austin Scaglione.

Revised 1:

Within the literacy Discourse, there are multiple things that can cause a change of identities and one of those is a literacy sponsor. A sponsor could be a teacher, coach, or, relative; they “are any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy” (Brandt 556). Many of us can recall a literacy sponsor in your life, maybe form younger years or even from college. Many of the literacy narratives that I have encountered in the document Rising Cairn had a scenario where a student had a teacher in previous years that in some way affected their reading or writing and that set them back for years to come. Some teacher gave a bad grade on work the student thought was excellent, some did not engage with their students, and others acted unkindly to the student. These literacy sponsors are withholding literacy from these students because they are holding them back from becoming fully emerged in the Discourse. Some of the literacy narratives I thought showed this the best was “The Progress for Getting a Better Teacher for English” written by Hien Nguyen and “Learning to Not Hate English” by Austin Scaglione.

Original 2:

Taking on the role as the victim in literacy is completely different from having a success narrative. As defined by Alexander a victim is “a victim of negative literacy experiences, in or out of school; casts blame for negative literacy experiences; discusses how someone took the fun out of reading and writing” (615). While a success narrative would be defined as “Equates literacy acquisition with success, liberation, development, progression, and upward mobility” (Alexander 615). While reading multiple literacy narratives from the Rising Cairn document I found that these identities connected with each other. Many of the students had a situation that caused them to move forward with a negative outlook on literacy but later they took on the success identity, because a different event changed their view to have a positive outlook on literacy.

Revised 2:

Taking on the role of the victim in literacy is completely different from having a success narrative. As defined by Alexander a victim is “a victim of negative literacy experiences, in or out of school; casts blame for negative literacy experiences; discusses how someone took the fun out of reading and writing” (615). While a success narrative would be defined as “Equates literacy acquisition with success, liberation, development, progression, and upward mobility” (Alexander 615). While reading multiple literacy narratives from the Rising Cairn document I found that these identities connected with each other. Many of the students had a situation that caused them to move forward with a negative outlook on literacy but later they took on the success identity because a different event changed their view to have a positive outlook on literacy. Often times the thing that changes the literacy narrative is a sponsor. Many times a student will have a sponsor that withheld literacy from them and that caused them to move forward in literacy with a negative outlook. But later in they ancounter a different sponsor that helps them and pushes them to become better with literacy even though before they were held back. The big factor within literacy narrative is the sponsors that those people have had. Often times we remember the negative enperiances and no the postive, so the negative stays with us for longer causing a longer effect.