Personal memoir

First Paper Assignment: The Personal Paper: Memoir (Due Sunday of week four)
In Week 4, you should spend time reflecting on suggestions for improvement given to you in the Peer Review last week and by your professor throughout the first few weeks of class. If you did not receive a peer review, work through the workshop questions on your own and develop a plan of improvement.You can also email the Virtual Writing Center if you want feedback on an entire essay. It takes some “turn-around time,” so you have to work ahead. Here are the instructions: https://www.cnm.edu/depts/tutoring/virtual-writing-center/checklist-for-submitting-paper-online I will also be sharing my thoughts with you on your draft by Friday. Finally, if you’d like to learn more about the art of revision, essentially “seeing again” your draft for the first time, please read through UNC-Chapel Hill’s discussion here: https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/revising-drafts/
Learning Outcomes:
to analyze experience and memory for meaning and significance
to develop public resonance in writing
to practice the skills of narration including description, dialogue, and transition
to focus and develop a thesis-driven essay
to organize an essay
to practice sentence clarity and variety
Minimum Requirements:
550-800 words (with a 50 words leeway more or fewer words)
MLA formatted
identifiable and supportable thesis
responds to the prompt
Writing Prompt for the Personal Essay: Remembering Who You Were
For this paper, you will write an essay in which you select a particular memory of an event, experience, person, or place and use to explore how you came to be who you are. In and of themselves, memories are not important, nor do they teach us anything. We must, as thinkers and writers, examine our memories with curiosity and a sense of possibility in order to learn something new, understand the importance of a moment, and to decide who we will continue to become. Many disciplines (sociology, psychology, biology) require individuals to use memories to create new theories and to develop strategies for achieving particular goals. Although there is no “right way” to structure a piece of personal writing, you may want to consider the following as possible patterns of development for each kind of paper.
Organizing a Personal Essay
Draft an introduction that sets the scene and captures the interest of a reader.

Present a complication or conflict that must be resolved in some way before the end of the story. This conflict can be between the author and self, between the author and others, or between the author and his or her environment. It could be a change, discovery, or challenge.

Explore the complication and conflict in rich, vivid language in a way that allows the reader to understand that there is a central theme or question that may or may not be stated explicitly but is significant.

Conclude with the resolution of the conflict (even if the resolution itself is ambivalent or ambiguous). Include the understanding or revelation that presents the moment of growth, transformation, or clarity for the author.

Personal Essay
It was one of the events in school that had the objective of awarding students who had excelled in their end of semesters examination. Everyone, including my parents and teachers, knew I could not perform better in my studies, which made me require more attention than the rest of the students.
At the event, the new academic representative started calling out names of the best students as they received their presents. Upon completing the best students, Mr. Gad explained that he had to introduce appreciation of the most improved students to encourage them to keep forging ahead to greater heights. To everyone’s surprise, I was the most improved student, according to my academic reports. This moment became one of the best moments in my entire high school period, and it gave me a turning point to start concentrating on my weakness, resulting in how I am currently

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