I really enjoyed writing this narrative. Writing about an accomplishment is always exciting, but also being able to speak of very significant moment in my life felt sort of relieving. I felt as if through this writing piece, I was able to give my Professor, as well as my peers, a better understanding of who I am; My identity.

From start to finish, this narrative was helpful towards my course learning outcomes. Starting with the draft, I learned to get all my thoughts out onto paper. Afterwards, I put all my ideas together and organized them into what I believed made the most sense. For a first draft, I like to have all my ideas in my writing and then take out anything if it’s too much. I believe it’s better to have too much, rather than too little.

Through the peer-revision and Professor Clark’s comments, I was satisfied with my narrative. Seeing the feedback, I learned what to look out for and how to write comments when I do revisions myself. Simply asking the writer questions about their writing, gives them an idea of what they are missing and what they should include/work on to make it better. I personally love getting feedback on my writing. I like to see how people view my writing and learn how I can better it for a wider range of audience. There has never been a time where I was offended by comments on my writing, mostly because that is something I love to do and opinions of other help me write better.

In addition, the work following the narrative was very intriguing. It was something I have never done in all of my days of education. Writing my narrative in a different genre really had me thinking. Professor Clark chose for me to write my narrative as an advertisement. It took me a while, but I was surprised to see that I was able to summarize my narrative into just one drawing. Writing the narrative as an advertisement didn’t give the reader the same vibe as I was going for, but there are other genres I could’ve chosen to do so. For example, some of my peers chose to write their narratives as poem or letters. I was surprised to see how they were able to put a narrative of an event in their life into a poem of a few words, while still holding a rhyme.

All in all, this assignment has challenged me in a way that I was never challenged before. Yet, it has also taught me to write in a genre that I’ve never written in before. Doing revisions has always been my weakest point, but I’ve learned quite a bit on how to do that better. I have got to say that I really did enjoy this assignment.

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