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Where do you get your writing ideas?
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Personal Narrative: Writing
Remember - your first draft doesn't have to be perfect. You will have time to revise later.
Use a personal narrative template to create your first draft.
1. Beginning
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Capture the reader's attention.
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Lead up to your focus statement.
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2. Middle
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Write events in the order they occurred.
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Use sensory details to make the experience vivid.
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Show what happened instead of telling what happened.
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3. Ending
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Tell why the experience was important to you.
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Wrap up the narrative.
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Students—
Read the winning short story!
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 Use the glossary to help find the meaning of literary words and writing terms that will help you think and talk about writing.
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To edit your writing well, you need to understand the rules. This library of quick, animated grammar lessons...
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