Assignment One: Personal Narrative
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Instructions:
ASSIGNMENT ONE: PERSONAL NARRATIVE.
Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to learn how to tell a story with a purpose.
Due Dates: Thursday, January 24: Submit your first drafts on turnitin.com by 11:59 pm
Friday, Jan. 25-Tuesday, Jan. 29: Read your classmates’ drafts before class starts
Tuesday, Jan. 29: Workshop first drafts of the Narrative in class
Tuesday, Feb. 5: Final Draft due on iCollege by 11:59 pm
Learning Outcomes:
• Engage in writing as a process. Consider who your intended audience is, and then draft a narrative to speak to them. Revise, edit, and proofread your first and second drafts.
• Use grammatical, stylistic, and mechanical formats …show more content…
For this assignment, I'd like for you to show how a change of mind or heart, a discovery, the confirmation or contradiction of a belief, a disappointment, or a decision made a major impact on your life.
This narrative should have a clear BEGINNING, MIDDLE, and END. The beginning is how life was before this event that you're writing about. In other words, you were just cruising along quite content with life when BAM! something happened. The middle is essentially how you dealt with that change. At the end of the narrative the event that you’re narrating should have CHANGED YOU IN SOME SIGNIFICANT WAY. How is your life different now that you've been through this experience?
Please bear in mind that your audience is not only your instructor, but all of your peers as well. Therefore, please only write about an event that you feel comfortable sharing with those of us that you’re going to spend the rest of the semester with. ANYTHING THAT WOULD BETTER SUITED FOR YOUR THERAPIST SHOULD NOT GO IN THIS ESSAY.
Requirements: 1- 3 pages in length. MLA format.
• 1” margins on top, bottom, left, and right; left …show more content…
21-30 mistakes: 20 point penalty
31-40 mistakes: 30 point penalty
41 + mistakes: automatic F (60)
Quality of the Narrative Itself (63 Points):
Is the subject matter appropriate? Yes = I'll grade the essay. No = F
Is the narrative something that others would want to know about you?
Do you engage the reader in a way in which they can empathize with you?
Is your story believable?
Do you stay focused? Or does your narrative wander?
Does the chronology of the story make sense?
What lesson did you learn from your experience?
Life can throw you some terrible lemons but I am determined to make lemonade out of every one of them. Eight years ago during Hurricane Katrina, my cousins and other family members moved to Atlanta. The move was to escape the terrible storm. This was a period when my cousin (Lance) and I had the opportunity to live in the same
Wayne- Kush and Alcohol
Gucci and Wiz- Nothing on ya
Instructions:
ASSIGNMENT ONE: PERSONAL NARRATIVE.
Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to learn how to tell a story with a purpose.
Due Dates: Thursday, January 24: Submit your first drafts on turnitin.com by 11:59 pm
Friday, Jan. 25-Tuesday, Jan. 29: Read your classmates’ drafts before class starts
Tuesday, Jan. 29: Workshop first drafts of the Narrative in class
Tuesday, Feb. 5: Final Draft due on iCollege by 11:59 pm
Learning Outcomes:
• Engage in writing as a process. Consider who your intended audience is, and then draft a narrative to speak to them. Revise, edit, and proofread your first and second drafts.
• Use grammatical, stylistic, and mechanical formats …show more content…
For this assignment, I'd like for you to show how a change of mind or heart, a discovery, the confirmation or contradiction of a belief, a disappointment, or a decision made a major impact on your life.
This narrative should have a clear BEGINNING, MIDDLE, and END. The beginning is how life was before this event that you're writing about. In other words, you were just cruising along quite content with life when BAM! something happened. The middle is essentially how you dealt with that change. At the end of the narrative the event that you’re narrating should have CHANGED YOU IN SOME SIGNIFICANT WAY. How is your life different now that you've been through this experience?
Please bear in mind that your audience is not only your instructor, but all of your peers as well. Therefore, please only write about an event that you feel comfortable sharing with those of us that you’re going to spend the rest of the semester with. ANYTHING THAT WOULD BETTER SUITED FOR YOUR THERAPIST SHOULD NOT GO IN THIS ESSAY.
Requirements: 1- 3 pages in length. MLA format.
• 1” margins on top, bottom, left, and right; left …show more content…
21-30 mistakes: 20 point penalty
31-40 mistakes: 30 point penalty
41 + mistakes: automatic F (60)
Quality of the Narrative Itself (63 Points):
Is the subject matter appropriate? Yes = I'll grade the essay. No = F
Is the narrative something that others would want to know about you?
Do you engage the reader in a way in which they can empathize with you?
Is your story believable?
Do you stay focused? Or does your narrative wander?
Does the chronology of the story make sense?
What lesson did you learn from your experience?
Life can throw you some terrible lemons but I am determined to make lemonade out of every one of them. Eight years ago during Hurricane Katrina, my cousins and other family members moved to Atlanta. The move was to escape the terrible storm. This was a period when my cousin (Lance) and I had the opportunity to live in the same