1) Describing my process of working on the essay:
Towards the beginning of my personal narrative, I felt stuck. The topic I chose was on my dog, Mango, and I was determined to have a well thought out message; in order to achieve that, I had to go over my introduction at least 10x to make sure it sounded alright. While writing the story of how Mango came to be ours, I was stumped on how to properly execute it. The description and word flow was very important to me because I wanted to capture the emotion behind the whole experience. 2) Discussing how class related activities affected my writing process: Comments from my peers during the peer review section really helped me to better my descriptive text, and to branch out to better describe the way Mango looked and the emotion behind the situation. From the student conference, I was able to walk away with a better understanding as to how to write a solid introduction and conclusion paragraph. Activities throughout lectures really helped me have a better grasp of being able to relay my message to others and it helped me better understand how to read other personal narratives and put myself in their shoes so to speak. 3) Discussing what I learned about myself as a writer from this experience: Two week ago, I would have told myself to be as descriptive as possible -- the more detail, the better. When it came to me writing my personal narrative, I found that my most unproductive time was spent overthinking what was supposed to come next. My personal narrative was about my sweet dog, Mango, and the ideas should have flowed freely. For the future, I will be sure to include many details that will make the reader feel as if he/she were there when the story took place.
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