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Narrative

            
             Writing has never been one of my finer points. My previous papers have always been returned to me full of corrections. I have always had trouble writing a paper that was "grammatically correct-. The papers were full of punctuation mistakes and had no variety in sentence structure. I took this class to gain experience in writing. My only other experience before this class has been an essay in other English classes or a dreaded research paper. I thought of writing as throwing my thoughts on paper, although this is somewhat true I learned there is much more to writing. Since the beginning of this semester I have grown as a writer.
             I enjoyed journal writing for many reasons. I have always been able to fill a page with words. I have never enjoyed including proper grammar and punctuation, and journal writing did not include these. I could write anything that would pop into my head whether it be a problem in life or something that had happened earlier that day. Journal writing was a good way to start me thinking and to teach me to write a page quickly. I thought of journal writing as a way to write "my- style without getting a grade on it or being told how wrong it is. .
             The magazine responses were also particularly easy essays for me to write. I have a strong opinion about almost everything, and writing it is easy for me to do. However after rereading my essay I realized I babble when writing my opinion. I repeated myself often; also I made many punctuation and grammar errors. Although it was easy to write "Smoking- my response to Sabrina F. Halls article "Lighting My Fire-. I would probably have received an "F- if it had been graded. This also helped me to learn how to write quickly and get my thoughts on paper, which I learned, in journal writing. .
             I did not enjoy writing the three smaller essays because I am not good at writing stories or narratives. The hardest part of writing my essay "The Anything but Boring Café-, was thinking of what to write about.


Essays Related to Narrative

1. Texts and Unnatural Narratives

What we are mainly concerned with here is about unnatural narratives. ... Richardson defines unnatural narratives as anti-mimetic texts that move beyond the conventions of 'natural' narratives, i.e. ... In order to understand this I will explain in more detail; many tales rely on a narrative, for example, in which blame is distributed. ... On the other hand, Jan Alber affirm that it is not that a natural reading of the text is impossible, although he argues that those engaging with a narrative need to be self-aware and constantly on the lookout. ... On the top of that it is incorre...

  • Word Count: 863
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

2. Assignment Requirements - Writing Your Narrative Essay

You will write a narrative essay that responds to these questions. Your learning narrative should be a thoughtful meditation on yourself as a learner. ... Finally, your learning narrative might consider more than just your classroom experiences. ... A good learning narrative should have the following elements: 1. ... The final draft of your learning narrative must be at least 1200 words in length. ...

  • Word Count: 1409
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Grade Level: High School

3. Narrative

Narrative is the art of storytelling. ... The media are the forerunners in narrative production. ... The nature of media narratives and their relations to our social situations is the object of narrative study. How useful is the theory if narrative? ... Media texts are narratives and more besides. ...

  • Word Count: 1013
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  • Grade Level: High School

4. Narrative

How far do you believe film narrative can be approached as a formula? When I first started being interested in filmmaking, I thought the world of good narrative. ... Take Hitchcock's Psycho for instance, what made that film a classic is how Hitchcock put the story on film and not particularly the narrative itself. ... Strangelove, the narrative is satirical view of war and the misuse of power. ... Many films derived its narrative from novels. ...

  • Word Count: 589
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

5. Incident Reports, Logs, and Narrative Reports

To gain some fresh insights in this area, this paper provides an explanation concerning the purposes of and differences between incident reports, logs, and narrative only reports. ... Narrative-Only Reports The use of narrative-only reports is also commonplace in health care settings where physicians and radiologists may dictate their diagnoses and prescribed treatment in a standard format as well as in law enforcement where these types of reports are completed in response to certain types of crimes or for specific purposes (Wells, 2003). ... Analysis The utility of incident reports, logs and ...

  • Word Count: 1455
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

6. Slave Narrative

The question is what is slave narrative? In this paper I will point out to the important facts about slave narrative and the essentials on why slave narrative is still very important to us today. ... As historical sources, slave narratives document slave life primarily in the south from the invaluable perspective of first-person. ... Slave narratives often speak about the experience of slavery: those who succeed and those who fail. many ex-slaves took up professional abolitionism or the writing of a narrative simply because they had no other means of income. ...

  • Word Count: 848
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

7. An Interesting Narrative

Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative is a wonderful piece of literary work. Equiano's story became the prototype for the 19th century slave narratives that followed it. ... Throughout the narrative slavery is attacked. ... The fact that slavery needs to be abolished and that Africans are capable of establishing civilized societies are the central themes in Equiano's narrative. These two themes are the primary reason that this narrative was written in the first place. ...

  • Word Count: 770
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

8. Slave Narratives

The two pieces I am going to pay attention to are Mary Rowlandson's narrative in Women's Indian Captivity Narratives and Harriet Jacobs narrative in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, An American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The first piece to be dissected is Mary Rowlandson's Indian narrative. ... In the previous quote Rowlandson is saying that her God changed, in essence, bad tasting food into something that is pleasant and refreshing to her, oh what a powerful religion Rowlandson speaks of The next piece that I am going to examine is Harrie...

  • Word Count: 1256
  • Approx Pages: 5
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

9. Beloved as a Slave Narrative

Before comparing Morrison's novel to that of a slave narrative it is first important to understand what exact constitutes a slave narrative. ... Omitting a plot structure, a slave narrative was only fact. ... The themes in Beloved are very similar to that of a slave narrative. ... The focus on pain is very similar to that of a slave narrative. ... Narratives, however, do not contain any of these. ...

  • Word Count: 831
  • Approx Pages: 3

10. Frederick Douglass' Slave Narratives

Our concerned for today is a production that is universally regarded as the finest example of a slave narrative tradition and Douglass' most accomplished work, that is to say the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written By Himself. ... In fact, there were other slave narratives in his time, some told by former slaves to white writers, and Douglass wanted to distinguish his work from other such narratives. ... Although, these paradoxical motives are perpetually at war they also sustain a kind balance between this dual focus of the narrative. ... Like many sla...

  • Word Count: 2277
  • Approx Pages: 9
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

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