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Writing Assignment: Discovering Implied Meaning
Writing Assignment: Discovering Implied Meaning
Write a multi-paragraph narrative essay about The Moment that Changed Everything. Your narrative essay should clearly explain: your moment and how you changed as a result of it. The first paragraph will introduce the topic by grabbing the reader’s attention in an interesting way. Remember that your goal is to show your moment with vivid details rather than just telling the reader what happened. This means the first paragraph could set the scene for your moment, or it could introduce the ideas behind the change you experienced. There are several ways to introduce a personal narrative. Remember, the end result is an exploration of an important moment and its effects on you. The first paragraph then becomes a tool to open the story and hook your reader.
You will need a thesis statement for your narrative. The thesis should clearly state what you have learned or how you have changed as a result of your moment, which is the focus of your narrative. Because this will be an implied thesis statement, it will not be included in the final essay. It is important, however, that you write it down now to ensure this central thought guides your narrative writing throughout the process.
The one or two paragraphs that follow the introduction need to include main points that develop your moment and response to it. Make sure each paragraph is necessary and advances the story you are telling, or rather showing. Each paragraph should have a topic sentence that introduces your ideas for that paragraph and offers details to support/prove this point. Each of your paragraphs should offer a separate point and be independent of each other but work together coherently.
As you wrap up your narrative, you should include a concluding remark at the end of your last paragraph that gives a final, interesting thought on your topic.
The grading rubric below will help you further develop your paper.
Pre-Writing
Pre-Writing
Answer the following questions in your notebook while watching the Pre Writing Video and be prepared to submit your answers to your instructor.
1. Understand the Assignment: Personal Narrative
List two of the key features needed to write a successful narrative essay.
2. Generate Ideas: My Moment
A conflict is an external, or outside, event that causes an internal, or inside, response from you. What event or problem put you in a new, uncomfortable, or unfamiliar situation to which you had to react? List and describe the "moment" that you want to write about. Think about details like who was there and what important objects were around at that moment.
3. Develop a Thesis: My Implied Thesis
Put your main idea for your essay into words.
4. Organize Ideas: My Paragraphs
* List the focus of your first paragraph.
* List the focus of your second paragraph.
* List the focus of your third paragraph.
Writing Workshop 1
Writing Workshop 1
Writing Workshop 2
Writing Workshop 2
Grammar in Context
Grammar in Context
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