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Writing a Personal Essay. CH.4. Personal Essay. Places the writer at center stage Photographic self-portrait Written with openness & honesty Written in the first-person as a narrative Subject is often commonplace Thesis can be implied or stated at any point in the narrative
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Personal Essay • Places the writer at center stage • Photographic self-portrait • Written with openness & honesty • Written in the first-person as a narrative • Subject is often commonplace • Thesis can be implied or stated at any point in the narrative • Relies on memory & observation and often shifts back and forth to then & now
Writing a Personal Essay • Think about subject • Generate ideas: lists, fast writing, visual mapping or clustering • Questions for reflection? • Evaluate your own sketch • Researching, gathering more info., drafting, & revising
Features of a Personal Essay • First person • Subject commonplace • Narrative form • Sources of information: memory and observation • Reflective of dialectical process