Essay 1: Narrative Essay Draft Discussion

Copy and paste your Narrative Essay draft below.

Please note: while this is a required assignment, the discussion posts in this course will not be formally graded. A rubric has been provided to assist with self and peer evaluation.

Evaluate your peers' writing by responding with each of these talking points (make sure you find specific places in the essays where your peers succeed in narrating a singular experience and where they may need to work on revision):

1.1 What makes the narrative memorable (what did you like best)?

1.2 What is the meaning of the story (why was the experience important to the writer)?

1.3 How did the writer structure the essay (is there a beginning, middle, and end)?

1.4 What details may be missing and are needed for clarity?  (Is there something that the writer implies but does not actually carry out in the narrative)?

1.5 Does the essay focus on one event only (is the topic narrowed enough? remember the "SOFT" video.

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Note: You should feel free to address items from the 6+1 Traits Rubric Links to an external site. discussed in Topic 3.2: Editing And Proofreading and the "Attending to Grammar" Links to an external site. link from the Dartmouth Writing Program in Topic 3.3: Matters Of Grammar, Mechanics, And Style when you recognize a problem with the essay.  Make sure you note the specific place in the essay where there is a problem and respond with support, of course!