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The Personal Essay Tradition — Homework
Do not draft your own essay yet -- this week is about understanding the form.
- 1.Explain in one or two sentences what makes a personal essay different from a narrative.
- 2.What does the French word "essai," the root of "essay," literally mean?
- 3.Take a narrative sentence about something that happened to you this month and add a clause that begins turning it into a reflective claim.
- 4.List three ordinary (not dramatic) moments from your life that might support an interesting reflective claim. For each, write the possible claim in one sentence.
- 5.Why might a reader find an essay about an ordinary moment more convincing than one about an extraordinary one?
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