REVIEW “Proficiency” by Shannon Nichols,

Write Journal Entry #2: summary and response to “Proficiency”.

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Summary of the Narrative

In the literacy narrative by Shannon titled, proficiency, she illustrates how failing the writing proficiency test affected her writing morale. For the article, Shannon started failing the test in the ninth grade yet she had thoroughly prepared for it (Shannon, n.d.). Failing the test three times even after making sure that she did everything right made her start hating reading, writing and she started taking her English lessons less seriously. From the narrative, Shannon’s English teacher could not tell her where she was going wrong in her writing yet she believed that writing was one of her strongest skills. Such an element devastated Shannon…