Personal Narrative: Assess your Strengths and Weaknesses

Description

Your prompt is: What are your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to: rhetorical knowledge, critical thinking, reading and writing, and writing process and its conventions? Which are you more effective at and why?

Be sure to answer the prompt and come up with a creative title. Follow the MLA format. This is a personal narrative essay. This will be the only time you will write fiction by telling a story: beginning, middle, and end. A successful essay will include both description and analysis. You will use description to highlight what you want readers to see and provide a foundation for your analysis.

Daily Work #1/Brief Writing– Personal Narrative: Assess your Strengths and Weaknesses

For your first writing assignment, you will write a personal narrative. Your prompt is: What are your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to: rhetorical knowledge, critical thinking, reading and writing, and writing process and its conventions?
Which are you more effective at and why?

Be sure to answer the prompt and come up with a creative title. Follow MLA format. This is a personal narrative essay. This will be the only time you will write fiction by telling a story: beginning, middle and end.

A successful essay will include both description and analysis. You will use description to highlight what you want readers to see and provide a foundation for your analysis.

Elements of the Personal Narrative

This assignment is focused on an understanding of the basic 5 paragraph essay: introduction, body, and conclusion. All our assignments will be based on this model. As we proceed with larger assignments the length and certain aspects will change in our writing, but they will all take the form of this first essay. Consider the following guidelines as you shape and draft your essay.

I. Introduction: Introductory paragraph
• Hook- an attention grabber- be creative
• Connecting information/Background information: (introduce your source- text, title, author-introduce two subjects-strengths and weaknesses for this assignment)
• Provides a thesis statement in terms of your analysis: What are your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to rhetorical knowledge, critical thinking, reading and writing, and writing process and its conventions?
• Which are you more effective and why?
• Tell your reader what you intend to talk about

II. Body: 3 Paragraphs
• Your main two subjects are weaknesses and strengths. The rest are examples you can use to analyze each of them.
• You can pool them in any creative combination that make a coherent storyline for your personal narrative.
• You should have three paragraphs-Point 1/1 paragraph-Point 2/1 paragraph-Point 3/1 paragraph

III. Conclusion

• RE-connect information/Background information: (RE-introduce your source- text, title, author-introduce two subjects-strengths and weaknesses for this assignment)
• RE-introduce your thesis statement in terms of your analysis: What are your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to rhetorical knowledge, critical thinking, reading and writing, and writing process and its conventions?
• Which are you more effective and why?
• RE-Tell your reader what you intend to talk about
• Leaves the reader with a clear understanding of your stance toward the prompt based on your thesis statement.

Length of Paper: 2 pages

Due Date: Sunday, August 30, 2020

Grading: 100 Point Scale and worth 10% of your overall grade for the course