Topic: Narrative essay/Life Changing Experience
For your first essay, you will write a narrative of 3-5 pages describing some event you’ve experienced firsthand. A narrative essay, by definition, tells a story for the purpose of expanding the reader’s awareness in some way. Therefore, it is important to avoid cliché topics and to find a unique perspective of the experience. This paper, although narrative, should include elements of persuasion. In other words, you should argue for a unique insight about life by using your personal experience as evidence.
Here are some possibilities for your topic:
An experience that formed your character or worldview in some way.
A time you made a mistake and learned an important lesson about life.
An “aha” moment when you observed something about life that you had not realized before.
The process of achieving a goal and what you learned in the process.
