Rhetorical Responsiveness: Responding to Literacy Narratives as Teachers of Composition - by Cynthia L. Selfe and the DALN Consortium
Kelly Smith's
Literacy Narrative
The second literacy narrative in this exhibit, "What is Good Writing—Version 2," was contributed to the DALN by Kelly Smith in June of 2010. The metadata for her literacy narrative indicates that she is a white, twenty-six-year-old female, is enrolled as a student at Illinois State University, and comes from a working class background. The title of her narrative indicates that this is the second version of Kelly's literacy narrative.
Kelly's video begins with a long close up of her face, with a focus on her large brown eyes peering out from behind stylish bangs. Kelly recalls, in a voiceover, that she was an honors English student throughout her high school years. She describes herself as being "the 'A' student that wrote papers and every teacher said “Oh, they're so wonderful; they're so great.'"
Kelly Smith's narrative in the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN):
Uncaptioned (.mov)
Captioned (.mov)
Timecode Transcript (.txt)