{"id":29043,"date":"2023-08-13T22:57:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T22:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/descriptive-narrative-essay-describing-an-event-or-experience-and-what-it-means-this-should-be-a-true-story-based-on-your-own-experience-personal-or-something-that-really-happened-but-not-to-you\/"},"modified":"2023-08-13T22:57:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T22:57:30","slug":"descriptive-narrative-essay-describing-an-event-or-experience-and-what-it-means-this-should-be-a-true-story-based-on-your-own-experience-personal-or-something-that-really-happened-but-not-to-you","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/descriptive-narrative-essay-describing-an-event-or-experience-and-what-it-means-this-should-be-a-true-story-based-on-your-own-experience-personal-or-something-that-really-happened-but-not-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Descriptive Narrative Essay, describing an event or experience and what it means, This should be a TRUE story based on your own experience (personal) or something that really happened but not to you (impersonal)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Aim for 4 or more paragraphs, at least 2 pages, and remember, a narrative is a story. This should be a<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><b style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">TRUE<\/b><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>story based on your own experience (personal) or something that really happened but not to you (impersonal). T<\/span><span style=\"color: inherit; font-size: 12pt; background-color: var(--color-6); font-variant-caps: inherit;\">ry starting with a basic organization like this (you\u2019ll have to modify to fit your own specific experience). Try to keep this basically chronological (in order of the events as they happened) because \u201cnarrative\u201d is usually a story told as it happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><b style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Paragraphs<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">1:&nbsp;<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Introduction\u2014the \u201cbefore situation\u201d<\/b>: Set up the situation (like what was the situation like before this event, what you were doing, where\/when this started).&nbsp; Then end the first paragraph with a sentence that states or hints at the main point or theme (like in the Berube sample essay, \u201cI was wrong\u201d).<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">2:<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Start of event.<\/b><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>What was happening when this started? What was the initiating action? What did you think was happening? Then what happened?<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">3:<b style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>First reaction<\/b>. What was the immediate reaction here? What was the start of change? What did you (or others if this is not \u201cpersonal\u201d to you) feel about this?<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">4:<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The results:<\/b><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>Then what happened as a result of the start of the event? What chain of events did this start? What did you or someone else do in response? What changed?<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">5: &nbsp;<b style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Conclusion: The change:<\/b><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;What changed because of this experience? Is there a message or theme that you think this story illustrates or shows?<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aim for 4 or more paragraphs, at least 2 pages, and remember, a narrative is a story. This should be a&nbsp;TRUE&nbsp;story based on your own experience (personal) or something that really happened but not to you (impersonal). Try starting with a basic organization like this (you\u2019ll have to modify to fit your own specific experience). 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