My experience on my first college essay was quite different from what I was taught all four years of High School. The format was very different from the point of view I’m writing in, the genre I’m writing about, and having to be clear. Most of HS I was forced to follow a claim, two body paragraphs to support my claim, and a paragraph to prove any counterclaim incorrect. In this Literacy Narrative there wasn’t no point I was trying get through, any persuasion being involved it was just a first-person essay on my thoughts on an image. First of all, any first-person essay in essay was a F, it was only third person majority of HS. I needed more substance for my essay I felt like. It went from having three-four reference articles to one image. I had to push my level of thinking and analyzing to make my essay have better quality, and purpose behind it. Also, the genre of the essay was more of a lecture. I say this because I’m explaining what I see nothing more and nothing else. I’m explaining my emotions towards an image which were feeling curious at first later onto disappointment. The purpose of this was to display an image with words and explain to where the audience that is reading my paper gets a sense of what I’m trying to explain so they could get a feeling of what I’m feeling in a way. The audience reading also has probably seen the image and trying to figure out what they feel and get an idea of what to feel. Which, in my essay I demonstrated and hopefully brought up points that’ll have the reader have a bigger view on the image after I explained it, and I believe that was the main purpose of this essay. Trying to explain this image and connect points where the reader of my essay has a whole new understanding of the image. As well as giving myself a better understanding of the image I tried to put it in a way the reader gets a better understanding.

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