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The literacy narrative is a type of personal narrative that describes the author's relationship with reading, writing, or speaking. The narrative will usually focus in on one narrow event in which literacy, or the learning of literacy, greatly impacted the author's life.

Usage
The literacy narrative is a common assignment in early college writing courses, but has also been written and analyzed for a variety of other purposes. The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN), an online archive of user-submitted literacy narratives sponsored by Ohio State University and Georgia State University, hosts narratives about reading literacy, music literacy, and any other way that users compose meaning Mental health literacy narratives have been used at Georgia State University to encourage discourse and understanding of mental health The results of the study done by Samantha J. Rae concluded that it is imperative that composition, rhetoric, and literacy studies adapt to the new forms of writing and narrative used. This would include content written on platforms such as social media. Another study, done by Deborah Marie Kuzawa at the Ohio State University, argued that the literacy narratives found in the DALN archives could be used to meet and challenge needs of composition courses like teaching about literacy, understanding identity, and encouraging undergraduate research

Formats
While the literacy narrative has existed formally as a primarily written essay, this has shifted in the 21st century. The DALN allows for entries of text, audio, video, and photography to their literacy narrative archive.