{"id":32724,"date":"2024-09-17T00:48:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T00:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/writing-a-personal-narrative-a-story-illustrating-an-event-or-experience-exemplifying-gratitude-in-other-words-share-a-colorful-story-about-an-experience-or-event-for-which-either-d\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T00:48:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T00:48:09","slug":"writing-a-personal-narrative-a-story-illustrating-an-event-or-experience-exemplifying-gratitude-in-other-words-share-a-colorful-story-about-an-experience-or-event-for-which-either-d","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/writing-a-personal-narrative-a-story-illustrating-an-event-or-experience-exemplifying-gratitude-in-other-words-share-a-colorful-story-about-an-experience-or-event-for-which-either-d\/","title":{"rendered":"writing a personal narrative\u2013a story\u2013illustrating an event or experience exemplifying gratitude. In other words, share a colorful story about an experience or event for which–either during or after the event– you feel or felt thankful."},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Essay <\/span>Organization<\/a>:<\/span> <\/span>The Personal Narrative is organized with a clear beginning, middle, and end. It should read like a story\u2013with an <\/span>exposition<\/a>, a <\/span>rise action<\/a>, a <\/span>climax<\/a>, a <\/span>falling action<\/a> <\/span>and a <\/span>resolution<\/a> <\/span>or denouement.  While the Personal Narrative is certainly less formal than other academic essays, the point or moral of the story (i.e. the <\/span>thesis<\/a>) should be very clear to the <\/span>reader<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


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      Transition<\/a>s: <\/span><\/span>The Personal Narrative utilizes <\/span>paragraph breaks<\/a> <\/span>and <\/span>transitional<\/a> <\/span>words and phrases that help the <\/span>audience<\/a> <\/span>(or <\/span>reader<\/a>) flow in and around the story. Read more about paragraph <\/span>transition<\/a>s in Appendix A. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


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        Character <\/span>Description<\/a>:  <\/span><\/span>Develop the <\/span>characters<\/a> <\/span>in the story so that the <\/span>reader<\/a> <\/span>has a clear understanding of the people in the story\u2013even if the one person in the story is YOU. Help your <\/span>reader<\/a> <\/span>learn about the <\/span>characters<\/a> <\/span>both by what they say and by what they do.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


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          Sensory Details: <\/span><\/span>Develop a sense of <\/span>imagery<\/a> <\/span>within the story using sensory-driven details. In other words, create a vivid story by helping the <\/span>reader<\/a> <\/span>to see, hear, taste and touch just as the <\/span>characters<\/a> <\/span>in your story do. Sensory details bring your readers into the story\u2013into the experience you are sharing with them.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


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            Dialogue<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>Use internal and\/or external <\/span>dialogue<\/a> <\/span>to connect the <\/span>characters<\/a> <\/span>and help propel the story forward. <\/span>Dialogue<\/a> <\/span>helps the writer to \u201cshow\u201d rather than \u201ctell\u201d the story to the <\/span>reader<\/a>.  Tips for formatting <\/span>dialogue<\/a> <\/span>can be found in Appendix C. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


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              The <\/span>Thesis<\/a><\/span> <\/span>(the message driving your story): Your story\u2019s point or purpose should be structured as a <\/span>thesis statement<\/a>. And this statement should be underlined.  As the direction of your story must be made clear to the <\/span>reader<\/a>, it would naturally make sense that the point of your story or <\/span>thesis<\/a> <\/span>appear somewhere within the first paragraph.   <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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              Essay Organization: The Personal Narrative is organized with a clear beginning, middle, and end. It should read like a story\u2013with an exposition, a rise action, a climax, a falling action and a resolution or denouement.  While the Personal Narrative is certainly less formal than other academic essays, the point or moral of the story (i.e. the thesis) should be very clear to the reader. Transitions: The Personal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[14],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/32724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/32724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=32724"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=32724"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=32724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}