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For years now, I have been assigning students to compose literacy narratives. More recently, I have also begun to require that they upload the final drafts of their literacy narratives to the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN) . The DALN already has a built-in IRB-approval process, so I don’t have to get it at my university. I also want to assist the DALN in building a robust archive of this important genre in our field. Andrea and I discussed her ideas for her audio literacy narrative, and she became enthusiastic about the different avenues she might pursue. After this brainstorming session, Andrea grew quiet. She looked uncomfortable, so I asked her if there was anything else she needed. She replied with one question,“Is it mandatory for me to post my literacy narrative to the DALN?”  \nI nodded in the affirmative and gave her a few reasons I had given in the past about why I require and value this aspect of the assignment, which had always satisfied my previous students. Andrea, however, was not persuaded. She explained that she didn’t feel comfortable posting her literacy narrative online in this capacity. She clarified that she was completely comfortable sharing her essay with her peers for studio review workshop in the confines of the classroom but that she did not want her essay to be made public in this way. Yet, she also didn’t want her grade tobe negatively impacted and was inquiring about the options. She asserted that, as a private writing assignment, she shouldn’t be forced to post her literacy narrative to the DALN. And wasn’t this against FERPA to make this a requirement?  \nI understood her hesitancy about making her writing public. In past years, I had had a few students who didn’t want to post their literacy narratives there, but in all of these cases, they compromised by posting their literacy narrative anonymously. Yet, Andrea did not want to make this concession. She didn’t want to share the story she wanted to write publicly. I then asked her if she could compose a story that she would be willing to share publicly. She replied that she could do this but that then the assignment wouldn’t be meaningful to her because she was just doing it to fulfill criteria—that her heart wouldn’t be in it. I could tell that Andrea was not going to budge, so I told her to give mea few days to consider her request.  \nAndrea’s probing questions about whether or not, as an instructor, I can (or should) require students to make their work public in this manner led me to consider and reflect on why I require my students to post their literacy narratives to the public space of the DALN. I first learned of the DALN during a semester when Cindy Selfe served as the Watson Professor at the University of Louisville where I was a graduate student. Since then, I have been an advocate of the DALN. I have sat at the CCCC booth and recorded interviews for the archive. I have contributed literacy narrative assignments to the DALN, and my students have supplied literacy narratives to the archive. In short, I view the DALN as an important public space where students can make their academic work public.  \nRendering academic work public has long been a value in composition, and I believe it’s worthwhile to ask students to post their literacy narratives to a public archive like the DALN.  \nFor one, making their work public has the potential to enhance student agency, empowerment, and authority. In posting to the DALN, the writer joins a community of others who are also sharing their literacy narratives. By participating in this community, they gain ","cbCaiuzGRHtoUFs0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuzGRHtoUFs0","pdf",50751,"English","# Composition Forum 36, Summer 2017\n## Rendering Private Writing Public in the DALN\n## Student concerns about public posting and FERPA\n## Why public archiving matters: agency and authority\n## Challenging dominant notions of literacy and education","[{\"question\":\"Why does the instructor require students to post literacy narratives to the DALN?\",\"answer\":\"The instructor views the DALN as an important public space where students can make academic work public, strengthening participation in public discourse and contributing to broader conversations about literacy, language, and identity.\"},{\"question\":\"What concerns does Andrea raise about posting her narrative online?\",\"answer\":\"Andrea worries about making her private writing public online, questions whether this requirement is mandatory, and asks whether it conflicts with FERPA, while also fearing her grade could be negatively affected.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author argue that public posting benefits students?\",\"answer\":\"The author argues that posting can enhance student agency, empowerment, and authority by placing student voices within a community and enabling their “I”-centered personal genres to influence public discourse.\"}]","Composition Forum 36 - Rendering Private Writing Public in the DALN | PDF",1792087928]