Narrative essay W3

Topic: write a narrative essay on your experience attending college for the first time

Narrative 

Your Narrative essay should contain the following basic features:

·  An introduction with an attention grabbing opening (hook), a well-defined message or argument (thesis), and any background information the reader needs to fully understand your story;  

·  Body paragraphs which a tell the story of your clear and specific, singular event that illustrates the essay thesis;

·  Vivid language that works to recreate the event, including descriptions of where the event took place, the people who were involved, and the things these people said and did;

·  A conclusion that briefly implicitly or explicitly reviews your story, reiterates the lessons you learned and that you hope the reader to learn, and provides a closing thought such as

o  why this event is still personally significant,

o  the state of your life since the event and how you feel about it,

o  future plans related to the event,

o  rhetorical questions for the reader, etc.

In addition to the above, the final draft of your essay should be:

.typed in Times New Roman 12pt. font, double-spaced, with one-inch margins.

·  Uses APA style (a title page and citations as needed which are modeled in your APA guide),

·  Written in first person;

·  Edited for spelling, mechanical, grammatical, and typing errors