Your goal in this assignment is to write a paper that explains a particular experience and the subsequent lesson or value illuminated by that experience. The Narrative Essay allows you to become comfortable with academic writing while still employing first-person perspective; you must use precise illustrations to detail a singular experience and then describe why that experience was valuable, insightful, or instructive. In this way, the narrative essay is a tool used for both illustrative writing (detailing an experience) and expository writing (explaining the significance of the experience to the reader).
Length
Your submission should be 500 to 750 words, or roughly 2 to 3 pages in length, not counting the cover page and references page.
Sources
This assignment does not require any sources. However, you may use outside sources if they are helpful to your paper. Any sources used must be cited in APA Style using in-text citations and a references page.
Details
For the Narrative Essay, you will complete the following steps:
Prewriting
Choose a topic from the prompts below. All topics should be related to either professional or previous academic experiences. The event you choose should be a specific experience rather than a collective experience that happened over time (i.e., perhaps you will choose the work you did on a specific project rather than the body of work you completed over an entire class/professional tenure). Consider the prewriting activities detailed in Unit II Lesson II PDF, and use the methods most helpful to your own writing process to help you consider specific experiences, narrow down your ideas, and choose a topic:
Describe an experience where you received critical feedback from a boss, instructor, colleague, or mentor.
Describe an experience where you used innovative technology to accomplish a task.
Describe an experience that helped shape or change your perspective and/or performance in a profound way.
Once you have decided on a topic, spend some time thinking about what you learned from the experience, how it helped shape your professional or academic outlook, and how the lessons from the experience are relevant in your life. You will develop these ideas into your paper’s thesis, which will detail the importance of the event or experience.
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