Tamia Fluker's Critique

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Tamia Fluker’s Critique
Professor Jaye gave his English 101 class an assignment to write a literacy narrative. The narrative’s objective was to discuss a time in one’s life that impacted their literacy growth. Tamia Fluker’s literacy narrative “A Day in the Life of a Reader” successfully met this objective. Although Fluker’s essay had a lot of positive areas there were a few areas in which she could improve.
First, Fluker started with a title that did inform the reader’s on what she was writing, however, it was a bit hard to understand. Fluker had a great introduction on explaining what her literacy narrative would be about. Her literacy narrative was based on how she was ascending to the first grade and learning how to read. Fluker also included

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