Assignment: A Narrative of your Grammar
General Directions: As a final project for ENGL 281, you will submit a narrative that describes your journey through the course. You will want to keep track of your progress throughout the course in order to complete this project. In the narrative, you will want to address the following required elements:
1. Your level of knowledge about grammar at the beginning of the course.
2. What happened to your understanding about grammar throughout the course-providing specific examples of how your knowledge was expanded, corrected, or affirmed.
3. Your level of knowledge about grammar at the end of the course.
While this assignment may first appear simplistic, don't be fooled. You will have to describe not only your journey but your understanding of grammatical concepts and how they evolved or changed.
In the end, you will want to present a compelling story about your work with grammar and to document that story with concrete and correct descriptions of grammatical concepts. To help you with those descriptions, be sure to look at some of the topics for Assignments 1 and 2 where you are asked to describe grammar (and the underlying rules).
This assignment also allows you not only to exhibit correct grammar in your writing but also to bring in elements of style. A conscious writer works at multiple levels when constructing a piece of writing: moving from sentence-to-sentence to keep the reader engaged with the entirety of the writing.
The length of the narrative should be at least four pages, double-spaced, but no longer than five pages. It should be formatted in the MLA documentation style. If you use outside resources, they should be documented both within the paper and presented on a Works Cited page. For assistance with MLA formatting, see MLA Formatting and Style Guide and MLA Sample Paper.