essay

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Final Drafts should be complete by Friday of Week 4. Your goal is to re-create a short period of time for your audience, so focus on the two or three of your five senses (sight, touch, sound, taste, and smell) that stand out most in your memory in order to do this effectively. Tell a story. Work in background information as necessary; do not include it in separate paragraphs or introduce your story with it (doing so will make your narrative “drag” for the reader). This essay should be about 4-5 typed, double-spaced pages. Be sure you turn in a clean, polished Google Doc in MLA Manuscript Format

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Now that you have turned in your final draft of your first writing project, briefly reflect on your writing process throughout our first unit, addressing each the following five areas:  1. What did you learn about the personal narrative as a genre? How did this impact your own decisions about what to write and how to write it?  2. What did you learn from the peer-review process? What was most helpful about the feedback you received?  3. What *specific* revisions did you make to your paper this week?  4. Why did you make those revisions noted in #3 (because of something in the course materials, something from the peer-review workshop, a conversation with me, etc.)? 5. What is the most valuable thing you've learned about your own writing process this unit?