Now that you have revised your literacy narrative, consider submitting it for publication. Although posting a public blog entry is referred to as publishing, it does not have the prestige associated with publishing your work in a peer-reviewed journal.
High Point University no longer publishes its own student journal, but there are many national undergraduate magazines you can submit to, including the one listed on the CUR (Council on Undergraduate Research) website.
If you are interested in looking beyond publications specifically for undergrads, Poets and Writers magazine’s site features a page where you can search for publications by the genre’s they publish (creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry), subgenre (speculative fiction, young adult, etc.) and reading period (the time when the journal accepts submissions).
Next Up
In class on Wednesday you will begin planning and drafting your analysis, which will focus on one of the texts that we have studied in class, including David Sedaris‘s “Me Talk Pretty One,” Helen Keller‘s “The Day Language Came into My Life,” Tom Junod‘s “The Falling Man,” and Michael Lewis‘s “Back Story.” If you have misplaced your copy of any of those or were absent the day that I distributed copies, you can download a copy from Blackboard and print it. Next Monday we will examine an additional text that may serve as the subject of your analysis. If it appeals to your more than the text you write about on Wednesday, you are welcome to change your subject to that latest addition to the readings.
Jane Lucas 