Many artists use conventions in their education narratives. It is a way to intrigue the reader by talking about something that they relate to. In this instance, Olivarez uses his own experience as an ingredient. Another ingredient could be being informative. You can teach people about a certain topic they don’t know about while you are talking about your story. While you are writing about your education narrative you can include your struggles and how you were feeling. You could also slip something informative in. One place you can start is talking about a time when you were feeling down. This can help people understand and make them think about times when they were feeling down. Reading something that people can relate to would be a good way to start. One question I would have about an education narrative would be how would we be writing this essay. Do we need to choose a certain number of features to talk about? One concern I have could be the length of the essay. I am still unsure how long it should be.
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ENG 1101 is about you getting more comfortable with your own process. You’ll look at tools and ideas about how language is used to communicate and persuade and even exclude. And you’ll be introduced to concepts like transfer, genre, and metacognition.
ANDΒ as part of the Write Out Loud! Learning Community, you’ll also be writing your own TEDTalk that you’ll present in COMM1330
I’m Jackie Blain, and you can find me on our Slack workspace or via email DBlain@citytech.cuny.edu.
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Couple of things: I never really thought about these being informative, but you’re absolutely correct! It’s not their main purpose, I suppose, but they certainly do educate the reader about what you went through and what your experiences have been, and maybe change some minds. Very thoughtful!
Second, these will be 1000 words by the time we’re done. The content is totally up to you: no limitation, no minimum. It’s whatever you choose, and told in whatever way you choose to tell it. We’ll talk more in class… Most people don’t have any problem getting to 1000 words, btw. π