The Narrative essay

Project Web
Our Method: The Projects
The progressions brought us to the academic argumentative essay by way of an introduction to voice, genre, and scholarly research. The projects ask that we continue there yet with greater emphasis on collaboration and a more sophisticated theoretical scope.
The projects include Project Web, Project Space, and Project Text, and each entails critical reading, process work, and group work. The projects also require composing with new media, fieldwork, and class presentations.
Project Web: Project Web asks that you form groups of four and, in conversation with each group member, design individual blogs devoted to a theme suggested by our Stretch reading. Your blogs will be linked, so you will explore multi-media composition individually and as a group. Your group will read and write about technology and social change, immediacy, hyper mediacy and remediation, via the narrative.
Note that your blog can include images, video, and animation that illustrate the content and themes of your particular blog posts. Each blog post will be academic in content. The blog provides you with an alternative space in which to practice writing and revision.
Project Web Requirements: Blog with posts, blog links to group members, use of new visual rhetoric, and essay @1,200 words (hardcopy for review and web version posted on blog).









Narrative Essay
“Writing which tells a story ”
Chapter 11
Writing Assignment:
Select a topic area and write an essay using narration as the paper’s dominant method of development. The Narrative is an opportunity for you to tell a story. Although some writers use the narrative format to relate unusual experiences, most tend to tell tales of love, joy, loss and frustrations. As A storyteller the challenge lies in applying your vision to a common experience and making them unique (in order to capture the reader’s interest). This essay can combine another format to help create your point (i.e. Description). Determine your purpose before beginning to write. Make sure to tell the story from a consistent point of view. As you plan and pre-write think about the scope of the issue; try to identify causal chains. What is the point of view, tense and conflict (internal and external)? All final drafts must be posted on the blog by 5p.m. on the due date.

Planning and Pre writing
Use K.W.L., Mapping, brainstorming or any other prewriting technique to generate narrative details. After examining your raw material identify two or three narrative points (thesis statements) that might focus an essay. Your prewriting should identify the purpose, audience and point of view on the selected subject.
Character Development:
Use a “People Watching” session to start on your character creation. Your characters must be fully developed.
Peer critiques – you must have at least two critique, four blog reviews and one lab review of your essay. Voice/ tone, audience, meaning, evidence, structure, and organization are the areas readers must comment on.
Revisions: Revision is mandatory. Check for vivid details that evoke strong feeling, good sentence structure, paragraph development and overall meaning and structure.

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