Information Literacy Narrative

Complete by: Friday 26 Sept. at class time

Write a 750-word personal narrative that relates a time when you felt information overload and how it affected you. You can think of this assignment as a twist on the classic literacy narrative genre, except that it’s focused on information literacy and on a moment when you felt overwhelmed by technology and/or information.

A successful narrative will (1) have a hook that draws the reader in, (2) talk about a specific experience in detail, and (3) connect that experience to the larger themes of information overload we’ve been learning about the class. Think about the ways that Chiang connects the personal and interstellar scales in The Story of Your Life as an example.

Requirements

• Submit your essay to the assignment on Sakai.
• 750 words, give or take 20 words on either side. The goal here is to meet the expectation for length as close to exactly as possible, just as if you were writing for a magazine or web publication.
• Include the wordcount in the header of your paper
• Double-spaced, readable font
• Use MLA Style for headers and page numbers
• PDF format (not a Word doc or other file type)