Writing Techniques for a Personal Narrative

The student writer chooses this method to organize his story.

• step by step chronological from beginning to end

• action, flashback for details, resolving the problem

• a series of metaphors and symbols to explain what happened

• a mystery-who-done-it story with suspseful details

This is an example of___.

"unasked and unanswered" OR "undeniably unattainable"

• word choice

• spelling

• sentence fluency

• presentation

This is an example of___.

• word choice

• sentence variety

• presenatation

• organization

This sentence is ___in this personal narrataive.

• an effective detail

• a well-written sentence

• the thesis, or main point

• the argument of the essay

The beginning of this personal narrative is an example of ____.

• dropping the reader into the action.

• chronological order of events.

• correct grammar and spelling.

• MLA formatting.

Unbearably impatient, bitterly cold room, imperceptibly uncomfortable are examples of____in this student's writing.

• sentence variety

• word choice

• spelling

• details

The student writer creates___in readers with his use of commas.

• interest in his doctors

• anxiety about his injury

• excitement about his chances of playing

• questions about the support of his coach

The student writer could have said "I disagreed."

Instead he writes, "I refuted wholeheartedly . . . "

This is____.

• presentation

• grammar

• word choice

• sentence variety