This personal narrative seemed like it went pretty well and I revised it pretty well too. I just am not sure about a couple things because I didn’t have time to really think about things and get the detail right. I also felt like I had a solid story and plenty of detail to describe what I was going through. There were some minor details that I left out that didn’t really belong in the first place but I guess that’s good. What I found really easy about this paper was the fact of finding a story that influenced my life because I have had so many. Many of these took place when I was about 13 and the years that I was a teen because that’s where I grew the most. What I found fairly easy about this paper was remembering what happened and who was with me because it was such a significant story in my life and I can remember most of it even when I was so young and I didn’t really think about these types of lessons. The hardest part was finding words and sentences to describe what happened and how I was feeling. I always find this hard to be able to make sentences that sound really good and describe how I was feeling. One last thing that I found kind of difficult for this paper was avoiding awkward sentences because I am usually always using these. I just decided to read my paper aloud a lot and find the problems by myself.
Soooo I didn't actually get to read your story...what was it about? It sounds like it must have been the perfect situation or event to choose for a personal narrative because it was so meaningful to you. I definitely agree with you when yous say there are so many things you could write a personal narrative on. I think each of us, if we look back on our lives, have had many eperiences that influenced our lives in a very significant way. That's one reason I really liked the personal narrative assignment because now I'll have that one event documented and I can always go back and read it whenever I want. It's pretty cool that we have ways to document stuff like that. I know when I’m old and wrinkly I’m gunna want to be able to go back and read those stories even if I do still remember them.
ReplyDeleteSo, I think we should post our narratives on our blogs so we can each read them. I think that is something that people would be interested in reading. It's not like it's a dull analytical essay to read so I think we'd all enjoy it. I understand what you mean. I didn't have trouble remembering much. I found that the larger the vocabulary you have the easier it is to form good sentences. For example, the sentence I said in class on Monday: How do we keep ourselves from being repetitive in our word choice without being precocious? Without using the word precocious I would have had to stumble around with my words probably sounding similar to this: without sounding, erm, like we are trying to pretend we are smarter than we really are. That just creates a long useless phrase that amounts to the same as precocious. So, I'd just recommend having a word of the day or three words a week and integrate them into your regular vocabulary until you actually use them on a regular basis.
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