A student from overseas did well on a research paper for an American

college.
She said research takes up space.
And the words in the research are correct because the writing is in
English.
Now however she has to write a narrative essay in her own words.
She is afraid she does not know enough English.
Here is some help.
Experts at Purdue University in Indiana define a narrative essay as often
anecdotal experiential and personal.
In other words this kind of essay usually tell a story from writer
experiences.
It is about something the writer has lived.
A narrative essay usually provides an insight. For example, such essays
might be named “ How I won the 100 meter dash.
Or how I came to study in The United Stats.
The form can offer a chance for creating of writing.
For expressing yourself in a paper.
The Purdue experts say often the narrative needs an introduction, a
plot, a conclusion or ending.
Often narrative essay requires characters as well.
An narrative usually describe events in the other in which they happen.
Judith Baumel is a poet and a professor at Adelphi University in New
York.
She advises that students who are also language learner us a thesaurus
when writing a narrative essay.
A thesaurus list words like a dictionary.
But it provides synonyms for each word.
A synonym is another word that has the same or similar meaning.
Some thesauruses also provide antonyms - words with the opposite or
nearly the opposite meanings of the word you want to replace.
Judith Baumel says the thesaurus is a great tool to help you find the
right word.