I am so so so happy to be done with Personal Narrative. I spent many hours slaving over the thing, and it feels awesome to be done. Although, I spent a lot of time writing it and am happy to be done I also kind of enjoyed it. It was fun to express my feelings, reflect on the past, and it kind of even gave me a little closure about losing the state championship. My paper was about how my team lost the state championship my senior year and how painful and disappointing the loss was. However, even though we lost we still ended the season as winners, because we grew in so many other ways. I found it difficult to figure out how to put quotations in my paper. For example, whether they should just be put in the paragraph or if they needed their own separate paragraph entirely. Do any of you have any idea on this subject? I also found it difficult to express my feelings and still sounding intelligent, not that I am a dumb person, but I’m not freaking J.K. Rowling or Mark Twain or something. I also had a hard time structuring the whole paper. For instance, where to put paragraphs chronologically, or when a new paragraph needs to be created. The paper was difficult and took long, but I’m glad I wrote it. It felt good to write, and I am now confident that I can write more than two pages without dying.
Yeah I'm happy this paper is over! Except for the fact that we have another one we are doing next, and then another, and another..... you get my point. Our papers were a lot alike! My paper was all about my state track meet and how I over came a stress fracture and still did well and all the lessens I learned from it. oh how I love the world of sports! I kinda enjoyed it also, it was fun to just let my mind flow relive old memories and reminisce.
ReplyDeleteI am sooo happy we are done with the personal narratives! And yeah spencer, this next one sounds hard. You lost the state championship?? That must have been horrible. I am so sorry! At least writing this paper gave you closure and gave you the opportunity to reflect. I also had the same problem with expressing my feelings and making it sound intelligent. I hope all of our peer editing and peer review made them sound educated! I am sure your paper turned out awesome though. That seems like a really good topic to me.
ReplyDeleteI think that everyone is excited that our paper is over. I have to agree that the personal narrative will probably be the most enjoyable piece we have to write. With my paper I did not go out of my way to sound intelligent; I just told my story as if I was writing to a friend. One thing that I have found helpful with learning to structure dialogue and paragraphs is to read more. You get a sense of the mechanics of writing and what works well. By reading many different authors, you can see the different ways of structuring your paper, and you can decide what works for you.
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