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Personal essay

  1. Write an essay about a place. The place itself is secondary here and can be somewhere you have been, as in Alexie’s “Phoenix, AZ”, or a place that only exists through the story, like China for Kingston in “No Name Woman”.
    Write an essay about a thing. As in option A, the thing, like the place, is secondary, to a larger point you are trying to make. Instead it functions as a marker, a signifier of something bigger, like the scroll at the beginning of Kingston’s chapter “Shaman” or the cold swimming suit in White’s “Once More to the Lake”.
    A few things to keep in mind:
    In any option, this essay is not really about writing or telling a story or describing a place or thing or place. If you stop there, you have completed an entry in your journal. Instead, you need to think about how you will connect your experience to your audience.
    That means that you need to think beyond the immediate and the highly personal. To do so, consider writing not about something that you immediately think of as significant, but rather something that might at first feel fairly mundane. We are not surprised or enlightened by your having a paradigm shift on your mission trip. The meanings associated with your favorite baseball cap, on the other hand, might be much more interesting and speak to common experience in a much more profound way. Seek your topic among the mundane.
    Show, don’t tell. Giving an a good description is much more convincing than simply stating “this thing is significant because….” Your goal is to let your reader experience what you experienced.
    Finally, reach for fresh language. Watch out for cliché. If you find yourself ending up with an easy, trite, or well-accepted moral, then you need to go further.
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    Based on the instructions above, you need to rewrite the essay attached.
    Someone who is confident to get an A and can say somthing deep and moral, cultural and identity about my story will be chosen as my writer!

    Thanks

 

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