When I finished my Folk Literacy writing portfolio for my English 4830W “Writing About Writing” course in December of 2014, I included three pieces. The first is an autoethnography- an interesting new genre of writing for me. That first piece was titled “Literacy, Geography, and Me.” The second piece is a discourse community project that I titled “Preserving Practices.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I go into detail in the Introductory Essay<\/a> which accompanies this portfolio about each of these two papers, and how they eventually combined and morphed into my final research project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Folk Literacy and Me” is the completed paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have also included here a research paper I wrote the first semester I went back to UGA titled “A Bleak Christmas.”<\/a> I improved my writing tremendously since then, but it deals with Charles Dickens thoughts on the importance of traditional literacy skills, like reading and writing. This essay discusses A Christmas Carol<\/em> and Bleak House<\/em>, (2 of my favorite Dickens novels).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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