Narratives

Chapter Opener

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chronicle events in people's lives

chronicle events in people’s lives

How to start

  • Need a topic?
  • Need to choose the right details?
  • Need to organize the events in your story?

Narratives

Chances are you’ve shared bits and pieces of your life story in writing many times. In doing so, you’ve written personal narratives. Personal does not mean that writers of personal narratives are always baring their souls. Instead, it suggests that they are telling stories from an individual perspective, providing details only they could know and insights only they could have.

LITERACY NARRATIVE To work at the campus writing center, you need to submit a literacy narrative detailing your own experiences with writing and language.
MEMOIR/REFLECTION You direct your grandparents to a community group that is collecting memoirs from local citizens who entered the United States as immigrants.
GRAPHIC NARRATIVE You want more people to think about bicycling to work, so you create a visual narrative about your experiences as an urban cyclist, posting both photographs and videos on a blog.