- This essay is kind of narrative and it also has another part--part 2 that Write a style memo that explains the stylistic choices you made and convince your audience that you’ve made conscious rhetorical choices in your personal narrative. This part only need one paragraph which may be 100 words.
- No matter what topic you choose and how short/small the moment/event is, make sure that your story has a larger meaning, contains a conflict, and will impact the reader in some way. This means you should consider both your message and purpose and design a narrative arc that helps your audience understand the larger meaning. You may think about how to establish, heighten, and resolve the conflict with descriptive details. And you may consider how to convey your meaning through your use of language (diction, syntax, tone, punctuation, etc.) and other stylistic devices (analogy, metaphor, simile, personification, dialogue, etc.), and how to appeal to your audience ethically, emotionally, logically.
- In addition to including basic elements of storytelling (narrator/character, conflict/resolution, descriptive details), you should incorporate at least three other skills you’ve learned from the writers we read – diction, syntax, punctuation, tone, figures of speech, narrative structure, paragraph structures, effective introduction, powerful conclusion, etc. Your writing should demonstrate your mastery of those skills and your ability to take control of the stylistic elements we discussed in class.