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How to Complete This Assignment
This assignment helps you practice creating an introduction, conclusion, thesis statement, and considering your topic, purpose, and audience for Paper 1.
You don't need to follow MLA format. You can number your responses.
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Instructions
1. Choose a Topic: Pick a unique personal experience based on the prompt below. This will be the topic for your first big paper: a narrative (personal story). Don't worry-you'll work on the paper step by step. For now, just think about your experience.
Prompt: Pick an experience you're comfortable sharing. Your story should have a lesson or meaning (this will be your thesis). Choose something distinct and unique to you, not a common experience like getting a driver's license or having a baby (while these experiences are special, they are not necessarily unique). Make sure you can add enough details and maybe dialogue to tell your story.
2. Review the English department's AI policy located in the syllabus and at the top of the Content area of Blackboard. AI should not be used to write any part of this assignment -- I want your own thoughts.
2. Answer the Following Questions and read the examples to help you:
What will you write about? Be specific. Example: "I will write about diving into a mud volcano in Colombia," or "I will write about caring for my grandmother who has dementia."
What's your thesis statement? This is the main point of your story-the lesson or meaning that you want readers to understand or take away. Example: "Diving into the mud volcano taught me the value of embracing unfamiliar situations to discover joy and personal growth."
What details (descriptions) will you include to support your thesis? Think about moments or images that show your lesson. Example: Describe the mud volcano (texture, temperature, sensation of floating); Explain your feelings (nervous, excited, hesitant); Detail the moment of diving in and your reaction.
Who is your audience? Who will read your story? Example: "My classmates and people who are nervous about trying new experiences."
What does your audience need to see to understand your thesis? What will help them agree with the lesson you learned? Example: Vivid Descriptions: Help them feel like they're there with you. Your Emotional Journey: Show your fear, hesitation, and how you overcame it.
How do you plan to open/start your paper, "start in the moment" or with "brief context"? Then provide the first sentence. Example: I will open my paper by starting in the moment. My first sentence may be, "My toes curled over the edge as I stared into the thick, gray mud below, my heart pounding louder than the voices urging me to jump," or I will open my paper with brief context. My first sentence will be, "I've never been the adventurous type, especially when it comes to messy or unpredictable situations".