Course: English 1101 Instructor: Anthony Borrero Email: Aborrero@uncc.

edu

Project #1: Multi-Modal Literacy Narrative Part 2: Cultural Domain Analysis I. Introduction: While many of us like to consider ourselves as isolated individuals with thoughts, values, beliefs and habits that are purely our own, in reality, we are simply a reflection of our society, and represent the discourses and ideas that we interact with in our communities. In order to better understand your literacy history, the second part of the Multi-Modal Literacy Narrative will allow us to reflect on and document the various communities we are part of, the various environments we have interacted with, as well as the individuals, events, objects, and actions that have impacted our views of literacy. II. Assignment Description: For the second part of the Multi-Modal Literacy Narrative Project, you will complete a Cultural Domain Analysis, in which you reflect on, document, and analyze four cultural/social systems that you engage with during your daily life. The four systems you will examine include the following: 1. Home: Which includes, but is not limited to your residence and socioeconomic status; your home-life practices, beliefs, and family values (which can also be seen as the culture, ideologies, and actions shared by you and your family); goods and materials in your home related to literacy and composition; as well as the general tone, relations, and communication patterns exhibited and employed in this cultural/social system. 2. Work: Which includes, but is not limited to your work experiences, the types of texts you engaged with and literacies you exercised on these work sites, as well as the general tone, relations, and communication patterns exhibited and employed in this cultural/social system (For example, if you were a Barista in a coffee shop, you not only use specific types of jargon, or language, to describe the products, but must also read the products themselves like texts, such as knowing when a cappuccino is properly frothed). 3. School: Which includes, but is not limited to your experiences in various academic environments (i.e. elementary school, high school, home school, etc.), as well as the types of texts you read and composed (i.e. books, formalized research, creative pieces, tests, numerical texts, graphs, etc.). This section can account for the general tone, relations, and communication patterns exhibited and employed in this cultural/social system (for example, holding formal conversations with teachers versus informal conversations with peers). 4. Neighborhood / Community / Peers: Which includes, but is not limited to the regions you have lived (i.e. city, state, country, continent, etc.), the various sub-cultures and social circles you have interacted with (i.e. academics, gamers, skateboarders, dancers, etc.), as well as ideas/values/practices of those individuals who you identify with and call friends. To complete the Cultural Domain Analysis will involve two primary tasks: First, you will reflect on your literacy domain by completing the domain analysis chart. Second, you will expand on your findings by writing about each cultural/social system in order to explain how they have influenced your development as a reader and writer (Note: check our Moodle page to download the chart you will need to complete this assignment.).

Course: English 1101 Instructor: Anthony Borrero Email: Aborrero@uncc.edu

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Project #1: Multi-Modal Literacy Narrative Part 2: Cultural Domain Analysis Instructions (Part 1 Domain Analysis Chart): When introducing the Multi-Modal Literacy Narrative project, we established that your mind is influenced by different cultural/social systems that work both separately and together to shape your ideas, beliefs, and practices as a reader and writer. To analyze these systems, your first task is to complete the domain analysis chart in which you must reflect on each of the four domains listed below and identify as many practices, ideas/values/beliefs, objects, or significant details from each cultural/social system that you think has influenced your literacy and composition skills.

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Course: English 1101 Instructor: Anthony Borrero Email: Aborrero@uncc.edu

Instructions (Part 2 Domain Analysis Narrative): Now that you have completed the chart and generated some ideas about the cultural/social systems you engage with, it is time to flesh out those ideas, and analyze/explain how you think each domain has influenced your literacy and composition. For each of the systems listed below, write between 75 and 100 words to explain the major details of each cultural/social system and how the qualities of each system have influenced your literacy and composition (this means you will compose four short analyses total). You may complete your essays below. Simply type your essay next to each of the headers.

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