Digital Literacy Narrative Analysis

The Digital Literacy Narrative allowed the author a chance to explain a story through reading with personal visual aid. The story that I choose was from my childhood and expands into my adulthood with my own daughter Madilyn May Sposkoski. The audience that I wanted to speak to were my classmates, Professora Fox and the people that would later read my story in an archive or hopefully the “Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives” (The Ohio State University of Libraries , 2016). The tone that is carried in my writings is sometimes snarky, witty and academic. Documents that are presented to an audience should be sound and complete. I chose to present my Digital Literacy Narrative in the Portable Document Format (PDF) because nothing can be deleted or edited distracting the reader. The ultimate goal of my story is to display a

My brother really did walk 10 miles in snow to get to school and we lived at the top of a hill that had two creeks at the bottom. Sometimes they would flood. I was limited in expanding this story. The Rhetorical argument that is being made in my Digital Literacy Narrative is about learning to reading and the importance in the future. Rhetoric is about being involved in the conversation. The writer and the author are moving the story forward while the author is standing there ground. A reader may have thought where is reading to a child going to go and at the end they see that the child worked with NASA. A simple bedtime story about schools being sideways led to being given classified information on astronauts. Our readings state that rhetoric is a “part of our daily lives” and that the “visual” have a memorable impact on our thoughts and actions (University of West Florida, 2016). My audience was brought from the present to the past to the present. The audience goes does a little time traveling. The point of the story is that you never know what reading will lead to. A good paying job, an experience or the