Narrative Essay

Narrative Essay

Use the Modern Language Association (MLA) format style to make your paper look like the example at this link: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_general_format.html.

Third, you must include an outline of your essay in the same .doc or .docx file as your essay. Use the MLA formal outline format to structure your outline; for examples of the MLA formal outline format, you should review The St. Martin’s Handbooksection 15e or the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) at https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/544/1/. I suggest that you place your outline on a new page after the last page of essay text in your document.

Each of these three housekeeping tasks are worth five percent of this assignment grade for a total of fifteen percent. The quality of your outline is graded separately. Your assignment is incomplete without both an essay and an outline.

Descriptive Essay

Write a 500-750 word essay using description as the chief method of development. Include an outline with the essay in the same file. There is an example of an outline in the Other Resources button of the course menu. Follow the guidelines for formatting as described in Notes on Writing a Descriptive Essay.  Write about someone, something that you know about personally, and most importantly, have a reason for writing. Do not simply write about something you see. Use language that creates mental images in the mind of the reader. Look in the OtherResources button for help with this essay. There must be a purpose to the writing.

Do not write fiction or write about fiction. Please meet but do not exceed the word limit for each lesson.

Writing Assignment

Purpose: to inform

Method of Development: description

For a topic for description, see the General Assignments list at the end of Chapter 3, Description, in The LongmanReader. Choose one of the ten topics from General Assignments, or notify me through Blackboard Messages with your own topic that you would prefer to use (Caution: all writing must be your own original work written for this class; you cannot use previously written material even if done for an earlier ENGL1301 class). Be sure that you are writing a descriptive essay, not a narrative. Include an outline in the same file as the essay. When writing your essay, you should look at the example and explanation given in The St. Martin’s Handbook (SMHB) Section 15e beginning on page 256. You should write out your thesis statement at the beginning of your outline as shown in SMHB.

The options to choose to write about are

1. An emergency that brought out the best or worst in you.
2. The hazards of taking children out to eat.
3. An incident that made you believe in fate.
4. Your best or worst day at work or school.
5. An important learning experience.
6. A narrow escape.
7. Your first date or day on the job.
8. A memorable childhood experience.
9. An unpleasant confrontation.
10. An imagined meeting with a historical figure.