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Personal Narrative Paragraph Guide

This document provides guidance on writing a personal narrative essay. It explains that a personal narrative should recount a specific experience that influenced the author's thoughts, actions, or feelings. The narrative should grab the reader's interest in the beginning and explain the meaning or importance of the event. The middle of the narrative should tell the story through describing important events, people, places, and the author's thoughts and feelings. The ending should explain the outcome of the experience and what the author learned from it. The document also provides tips for paragraph structure in a personal narrative.

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Personal Narrative Paragraph Guide

This document provides guidance on writing a personal narrative essay. It explains that a personal narrative should recount a specific experience that influenced the author's thoughts, actions, or feelings. The narrative should grab the reader's interest in the beginning and explain the meaning or importance of the event. The middle of the narrative should tell the story through describing important events, people, places, and the author's thoughts and feelings. The ending should explain the outcome of the experience and what the author learned from it. The document also provides tips for paragraph structure in a personal narrative.

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Personal Narrative

Writer’s Purpose

 For this essay you will need to write about one


specific experience that changed how you
acted, thought, or felt. Use your experience as
a spring board for reflection.
 Your purpose is not to merely tell an interesting
story but to show your readers the importance
and influence the experience has had on you.
What Makes a Good Personal
Narrative?

 Good stories occur everywhere and can be told about


anything. They are as likely to occur in your own
neighborhood as in some exotic locale.
 Potential stories happen daily; what makes potential
stories actual stories is putting them into language,
recounting them, orally or in writing.
 Good stories are entertaining, informative, lively, and
believable; they will mean something to those who write
them as well as to those who read them.
Parts of a Personal Narrative

 All personal narratives should have the following:

 A beginning that grabs the reader's interest; sometimes gives


background information and a hint about the meaning or
importance of the event.

 A middle that tells about important events, describes people


and places, and tells the writer's thoughts and feelings.

 An ending in which the writer explains the outcome and


shows the meaning of the experience (what they learned
from it).
Paragraph Guide

 The writer gives his or her narrative a title


 The writer sets the scene and makes the reader want to read more
 The writer describes an experience that happened to him or her.
 The writer describes a problem he or she faced.
 The writer describes his or her feelings about the situation.
 The writer gives details to help the reader form a picture of the
events.
 The writer ends his or her story by sharing what he or she learned
from this experience.

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