NUR 3846 MDC A Lesson in Perseverance Narrative Essay

Write a Narrative Essay.

Write a 300 – 500-word Narration Essay based on one choice from the following list:

1. Choose a theatrical moment in your life to write about. You may write a personal narrative on a topic on one of the following topics.

( review the videos on narratives in “the Pages” section before attempting to write the narrative.)

• An event that was interesting, humorous, or embarrassing
• Something you found challenging.
• A memory from your childhood that remains vivid.
• An important moment that changed your life

2. Consider using prewriting strategies to generate some ideas before planning the essay:

      See the document on Prewriting Strategies. Prewriting definition.docx

3, Complete the narrative outline to help you build your essay: See the narrative outline worksheet: narrative-essay-outline-sample.pdf

4.  Build your essay; see Sample of a personal narration.docxDownload Sample of a personal narration.docx

Sample narrative-Objective narration.docxDownload Sample narrative-Objective narration.docx

• Provide the narrative elements in your paragraph to keep the reader’s interest.
• A narrative keeps the reader asking, “What happens.”
• A narrative must be written in some sequence: chronological or reverse chronological order, use time markers, include pertinent details, and have a beginning, middle, and end. A narrative can Include some dialogue and characters to make the story interesting.
• Is there a moral to the story? What did that moment teach you?
• Each paragraph should have a topic sentence followed by supportive details that expand on the main idea and a conclusion.
• Remember that you want to keep the reader’s attention, so stay focused on one idea at a time, explain, elaborate, and give details and examples to support the main idea. You may lose the reader’s attention if your paragraph is too long.
• Use descriptive elements to make the moment more dramatic than it was.or

5. You may write a Biographical or a fictional narrative. (see video on narrative in “pages section.”)

Writing a biographical fiction requires citations and references; videos are available in the pages section on citing using the APA format.