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NARRATIVES OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE - Express yourself

THE NARRATIVE of personal experience allows you to communicate to your reader the people, places, and events in your life that have been of significant influence. What you choose to write about and how you present the information and emotions indicate a great deal about your values and attitudes. | CHAPTER SEVEN Narratives of Personal Experience THE NARRATIVE of personal experience allows you to communicate to your reader the people places and events in your life that have been of significant influence. What you choose to write about and how you present the information and emotions indicate a great deal about your values and attitudes. Doesn t it seem that every time you walk into an English class the teacher asks you to write something about yourself Your teacher is just trying to get to know you and to know something about how ------ well you can write. The well part means how well you handle the conventions of standard written English like sentence structure and usage. The getting to know you part is how creative and insightful you are. Some of these getting to know you assignments aren t very good ones. They give you little help in figuring out just what to write about. But most English teachers know that to get a good product they have to 75 Narratives of Personal Experience EXPRESS YOURSELF give you some good directions and helpful pre-writing conversation. When it comes to the narrative of personal experience the key to the writing is in the pre-writing. Consider this assignment given on the first day of school and due tomorrow We have all had experiences that have changed the direction of our lives. These experiences may be momentous or they may be experiences that did not loom so large at the time yet they changed our lives forever. Recall such a turning point in your life and present it so that you give the reader a sense of what your life was like before the event and how it changed after the event. After you get over the original feelings that 1 nothing momentous ever happened to you and 2 what you feel was momentous you could never write about in your English class you re going to have to come up with something. Where do you even begin Pre-writing strategies For most narratives of personal experience the cluster map or lists which center from the