Narrative EssayAssignment Instructions

Narrative EssayAssignment Instructions

Description:Write about anincident that hashad the strongest impact on your life in the first-person point of view. 4~5 pages (1,000~1,250 words). Submit it by the due (9/16 at 11:59 pm).

Purpose of this Assignment:

• Focus on one incident and extend it as a 4~5 page essay.
• Retrospect that incident and speculate on its meaning.
• Conveymessagesrelated to that experience to the reader.
• Find a narrating voice that is personal and unique.
• Tell a true story with a style that captures the reader’s attention throughout the paper.

Outcomes Students Will Achieve through this Assignment:

• Understand themselves and their attitude to the situation better.
• Demonstrate the first-person point of view.
• Distinguish narrative essays fromother essays that consist of facts and opinions.
• Organize a narrative essay with an effective introduction, body, climax, and conclusion. 
• Demonstrate appropriate usage of grammar, syntax, capitalization, and punctuation.
• Apply the required academic paper format, following the MLAstyle.

Skills Students will Use to Complete this Assignment:

• Critical thinking skills to selecta past incident as an appropriate material for a narrative and crystalize memoriesin a form of a college-level essay.
• Writing skills to recreate scenes, sounds, voices, characters, dialogues, etc. accurately and vividly enough to draw the reader’s attention.
• Skills to organize materials effectively, creating flow in writing while giving a strong impact in the beginning, climax, and ending to the reader. 
• Editing skills to revise the paper, paying attention to the content and structure of the whole paper and also mechanics in sentences.

Paper Format and How to Submit:

• Follow the paper format instructed in the file of the Getting Started folder.
• Submit the paper as a Word document (attached file) to Assignments.
• Do NOT use Google Doc. If it’s necessary, download the Word app from Google Doc or the college website (Office:365).
• Double-space throughout the paper.
• Create a title of your paper.
• Indent the beginning of each paragraph. 
• Avoid using fancy fonts.Use Times New Roman or Cambria, in 12pt size.

How to Write a Narrative Essay

1. Make a list of your personal experiences that have affected your life greatly. Choose one that seems to have the most significant impact on your life. 
2. Make sure to write in the first-person point of view. The narrator should be “I.” 
3. A narrative essay needs to have astructure. Make a plan on how you order events. What content are you including inthe beginning, middle and end of your narrative?
4. In the introduction of the narrative essay, write a claim or theme related to the content of your essay (it could be considered “thesis”). What did you learn from this experience? Why is this experience so important for you?
5. Speculate onthe flow of events and the appropriate location of the climaxin your narrative.
6. When the scene, timeline, setting, or perspective changes, start a new paragraph. Indent the beginning of each paragraph. 
7. End the narrative essay with a paragraph that works as a conclusion, which gives a sense of closure to the essay. 
8. Think about your audience and select an appropriate style and voice.
9. Decide what dialogues you need to include in youressay. Dialogues make the narrative vivid and colorful, and they also help to set up the tone.

10.Be aware that your narrative essay should be based on truth.

11. Use the past tense when you mention what happened in the past.

12.Keep revising the paper for the content and mechanics.