Well, I am glad my personal narrative is over now. Overall I think it went pretty well. I still had some trouble with the ending and I am not sure if it came out cheesy or not, but I think the majority of it was pretty good. I also found it hard to leave some detail out. I wanted to tell the story just how I saw it, but personal narratives don't work that way. I had to give just the important information that would let my readers see what I was experiencing, but not too much where they get bored or lost in it. I think I did a good job of not giving extra information, but still using figurative language and my voice in this paper. Overall, I didn’t think that the assignment as a whole was too difficult. I like how we broke it down in segments and had the first two pages due earlier. It helped me not to procrastinate and get it done when I needed to. Also, the peer edits where nice because I had to have everything written up by then and than I got some feed back on what people thought I could do to improve my paper. The peer edits also made it easy to find the errors in my paper I usually pass over. In the end, I am pleased about how the assignment turned out and hopefully I get the grade I want on it. Writing is worth 70% of our grade!
I have many of the same concerns you do. I’m pretty sure my narrative was as cheesy as it gets, but at the same time, I think I’m okay with that. I don’t think my story could have been told without some predictability and cheesiness. I was also glad that our prewriting and brainstorming was due days beforehand. I tend to procrastinate, so it was good to get some ideas flowing and even begin writing prior to the due date. Like you, I also appreciated the peer edits, they allowed me to see what I could fix and see how my paper came across to someone other than myself.
ReplyDeletei definitely felt the same way about trying hard not to sound cheesy or dumb. its hard to do considering many of our life stories DO have cheesy outcomes haha. the story i told had a lot of detail and i do wanted to include everything! Sifting through your memory bank and choosing exactly what to write about was no easy task. Great job on using figurative language! thats one area of my paper that i definitely could have improved on.... sounds like you overall liked the assignment which is great! looking forward to get my score too. sorta stressed about it haha.
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