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The first draft of my personal narrative was beyond shitty. Writing the paper seemed like an easy task in the beginning, but it was harder than expected. As I was writing my personal narrative I noticed that it was beginning to sound like a scholarly essay instead of something personal, which wasn’t the goal of completing a personal narrative. Fortunately, I chose my conference with Mat during the first week of conferences which forced me to write the entire paper early so that I would have sufficient time to make corrections based on Mat’s feedback.

 

 

During my conference, I read little snippets from my draft to Mat and explained to him what I felt was “off” about my personal narrative. Mat recommended that I focused on different  impactful moments of my life before coming to America or being accepted to Florida State University. While my project 2 would pick up or go into depth , rather, of the CARE (Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement) program. I practically had to write a whole new essay, this explains why my “shitty draft” looks nothing to my final draft. Since, my conference was on a Friday, the following two days I spent reading the final drafts of the personal narratives of Mat’s past classes to get an idea as to what I needed to do to accomplish an excellent personal narrative. I don’t know why I didn’t do this in the first place.

 

After reading a couple of past personal narratives, I started a new outline for my essay by listing the most dramatic and impactful moments from my life. Now I’m looking back and I’m thinking it was important for my personal narrative to look on those moments because they shaped me into the person I am today; my identity. What’s a personal narrative without an identity? After doing the outline I began to write a new paper which I expected to be the last draft for my personal narrative. This did not happen!

 

 After I thought I was finished, I read it and was uncertain about a few parts to which I made an appointment at the Williams Writing Center to have a tutor read my personal narrative and give me a feedback. Luckily, in class Mat created a rubric ,which would be used to grade our personal narratives, the day before I had my appointment at the writing center, which game me more time to add-on to my essay if it was needed. When I went to the writing center, I brought the  rubric with me and gave it to my tutor so that she could tell me if my essay followed the rubric. It did for the most part! She suggested that I can incorporate more of my thoughts to show how I felt during every “episode”.

 

Adding the finishing touches to my personal narrative, I was pleased with the final product with zero uncertainty. With that I earned an A on my final draft, which was exciting. Semester looking good!