essay

What Do You Think an Essay Needs to Include in

order To Be Successful?

Starting Your Narrative Essay

Tips:

1.

An effective topic connects with you and energizes your writing

2.

An effective topic connects with your audience

3.

An effective topic connects with your course

4.

An effective topic offers potential for investigation and insight

5.

An effective topic is born from brainstorming and early

research

Writing Your First Draft

1.

Have I Made My Point Clearly?

2.

Have I Provided Enough Detail to Bring the Event to

Life?

3.

Have I Organized My Ideas and Details Logically?

4.

Discussion: What can we do to help generate more

ideas so we don’t run into the dreaded excuse of “I couldn’t

write enough words to meet the minimum requirement of

pages”?

Writing Your First Draft (DUE 10/8)

1.

Write Your Draft -- as much as you can!

2.

Read Your Draft -- all of it! Ask yourself where more

information is needed!

3.

Re-read Your Draft -- seriously! Re-reading your work will

help you see what mistakes you’ve made!

4.

Remember the rules for the first draft!

a.

Times New Roman, 12 point font

b.

Double Spaced, with 1 inch margins

c.

Print it out!

What’s Due Next Class?

Print Out Your Five Best Ideas for a Narrative Essay Topic:

1.

Five Clear Topics (which we started developing today)

2.

Provide a Rationale for All Five Topic Ideas

3.

What is a Rationale?

A set of reasons or a logical basis for a course of action, in

other words, ask yourself “WHY DID I CHOOSE THIS

TOPIC?”

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