Welcome to De Anza!
Agenda
• Essay 1: Personal Narrative
– Don’t stress out about this essay. It is only
10% of your grade. If you follow the workshop
rubric it will be almost impossible for you to get
below a B-, and so the probable variation in
your grade would be about 2% of your final
grade.
Personal Narrative
• Titles
– Take a few minutes to write down a onesentence version of your personal
narrative.
Personal Narrative
• Titles
– Use a combination of some or all of the
keywords from your description (onesentence version of your story) to form
your title. You can use additional words if
necessary, but your title should be as short
as possible.
Personal Narrative
• Introductions
– Your introduction should probably give
some background about your life before
the problem that you focused on in your
narrative.
– The background that you include in the
introduction should naturally transition into
the story about your problem.
Personal Narrative
• Introductions
– It is likely that you will need to delete the first one
or two of your sentences.
– If the first one or two of your sentences do not
mention you then delete them and rewrite the next
sentence so that it is an appropriate first sentence
for your story or write a new first sentence that
mentions you.
– Let’s try to make some first sentences and
introductions based on the one-sentence version
of your story.
Personal Narrative
• Checklist:
– Double-check your introduction
– Check your essay against the workshop
rubric and review the comments from your
workshop partner.
– Proofread. It will be helpful if you can let
someone else read your essay before I do.
– Print out your essay. Staple the workshop
checklist or the draft that you workshopped
behind your final draft.
Homework
• The final draft of your essay is due
tomorrow.
• See me if you need an extension. If you
have not yet done the workshop then
you need an extension.
• I need to meet with Zhijun.