Length: minimum 5 pages
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is for me to become more familiar with you as a person, and to analyze your strengths and weaknesses in terms of writing style, critical thinking skills, ability to express yourself clearly. Be careful with grammar and punctuation. Proofreading and improvement in writing are crucial to your success in this course.
Assignment
You are to write a brief “mini-memoir” that explores and reflects on a central theme or question regarding your personal experiences in your life. You are to attempt to invite readers to explore and reflect with you (the narrator) as you try to unravel the deeper significance of the recounted event/s in your memoir.
Thus, develop a central theme or question in your memoir in which you, the narrator, explore and reflect on with the reader. Make sure your memoir answers the question and/or gives closure to the question/theme while presenting a new understanding of the question/theme. As a writer, you want to provide a new revelation/understanding that presents a moment of personal growth (be it emotional, spiritual, etc.), of transformation, or clarity in yourself as the writer/narrator.
Think of experiences that were challenging, scary, fun (or whatever), and think about times when something important happened to you, thus helping you make a discovery about yourself or someone else. Think about the times when you felt pain or great happiness.
Grading
I will be grading based on content (including specific examples, dialogue, similes, metaphors, etc), organization (clear description of the complication, evaluation of the complication, & resolution of the complication), grammar, proofreading, and sentence structure.
Question: What defines your identity? Who are you?
