Narrative Paragraph Planning Guidelines

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Topic: Choose a personal experience worth writing about. Think of a memorable event from your own life that you can condense into one 200-word paragraph. Do not choose an event that requires great length to tell. Use any one or any combination of prewriting strategies (freewriting, brainstorming, clustering/mapping) to generate topic ideas.

Attitude/Point: This is the point you want to make with your story, or your controlling idea. It could be something you learned from your experience or some truth you want to prove or demonstrate.

Audience: Be specific in selecting your audience. Who would be interested in hearing this story? Who might benefit from hearing it? The audience cannot be your instructor, your classmates, or yourself.

Purpose: Is your reason for sharing this story with that particular audience 1) to inform, 2) to entertain, or 3) to persuade? Choose one or perhaps a combination of two of these purposes.

Topic Sentence: Combine your topic and your point (controlling idea) into a complete sentence.

Paragraph Plan: Brainstorm a short list of key events of your story. This means the main events and important supporting details. Eliminate anything that is not relevant to your point and generate a plan similar to the sample in your text. Include this list in the space provided in the Prewriting Template (attached).

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ENGL 100 NARRATIVE PARAGRAPH – PREWRITING TEMPLATE NOTICE: • • • • There are 4 steps for this assignment: Planning (1), Rough Draft (2), Revised Draft (3), and Edited Draft (4). In order to complete the writing assignment correctly and to receive the maximum amount of points for your work, you must complete all 4 steps. Points will be deducted for any missing step. Review the assignment instructions and the grading rubric carefully to ensure that you have completed all of the required elements before submitting your prewriting assignment. HONOR STATEMENT Read and sign this honor statement prior to submitting your assignment: By typing my name in the space provided, I certify that all words and ideas in my writing assignment are mine alone, and, if I used another person’s words or ideas (by summarizing, paraphrasing, or directly quoting), I gave credit to that author, and I also put quotation marks around any direct quotations. By signing my name, I also understand that, if I have copied someone else’s ideas or words, I have plagiarized, and I understand that the penalty for plagiarism is course failure. Student Name: _________________________________________ Page 1 of 5 ENGL 100 Writing Prompt: A narrative piece gives your reader a personal snapshot of an event in your life. In each of the four prewriting steps of this assignment, brainstorm and write about a moment in your life that is special to you. Make your reader feel like he/she is there in that moment with you. Step 1: Narrative Paragraph Planning Directions: Fill in the fields below in response to the writing prompt. Be sure to complete each component of the planning to ensure that your content is correct. Topic: Attitude/Point: Audience: Purpose: Topic Sentence: Paragraph Plan: Page 2 of 5 ENGL 100 Step 2: Narrative Paragraph Rough Draft Directions: Write a rough draft that follows your paragraph plan, beginning with your topic sentence. Do not worry about spelling or grammar; just let your thoughts flow. End with a good concluding sentence that restates your controlling idea or expresses a thought that restates your dominant impression. It should be approximately 200 words, no less and not too much more. Page 3 of 5 ENGL 100 Step 3: Narrative Paragraph Revised Draft Directions: Copy your Narrative Paragraph Rough Draft (from above), paste it below, click on “Tools” or “Review” if you are using Microsoft Word, and hit “Track Changes.” This is so your instructor can see all the changes you make. Begin reading through your rough draft and make changes to the content as you see fit. Add more descriptive words if needed or delete irrelevant ones that do not help create your dominant impression. Add transitional words or phrases to help the paragraph flow in a logical order. Then, save the draft with the changes. Page 4 of 5 ENGL 100 Step 4: Narrative Paragraph Edited Draft Directions: Turn off the “Track Changes” feature. Copy your Revised Narrative Paragraph Draft (from above) and paste it below. Now, click on “Tools” or “Review” if you are using Microsoft Word and turn the “Track Changes” feature on. Edit for any spelling, punctuation, or grammatical errors. Save these changes. NOTE: Use of contractions (can’t, won’t, doesn’t, etc.) and second person (any form of the pronoun “you”) is strictly prohibited and will result in loss of points on writing assignments. Page 5 of 5
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ENGL 100

NAME
TUTOR
COURSE
DATE
NARRATIVE PARAGRAPH – PREWRITING TEMPLATE
HONOR STATEMENT

Read and sign this honor statement prior to submitting your assignment:

By typing my name in the space provided, I certify that all words and ideas in my writing
assignment are mine alone, and, if I used another person’s words or ideas (by summarizing,
paraphrasing, or directly quoting), I gave credit to that author, and I also put quotation marks
around any direct quotations.

By signing my name, I also understand that, if I have copied someone else’s ideas or words, I
have plagiarized, and I understand that the penalty for plagiarism is course failure.
Student Name: _________________________________________

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ENGL 100

Writing Prompt: A narrative piece gives your reader a personal snapshot of an event in your
life. In each of the four prewriting steps of this assignment, brainstorm and write about a
moment in your l...


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