Upon reading José’s educational narrative I noticed that he set the tone from the beginning of his writing. He was also careful with his word choices. He spoke as if he was giving advice to someone. I feel like this is important when writing an educational narrative. The reader should be able to relate to your story and be able to take what you said and apply it to their life. To start my educational narrative I feel like I should talk about my middle school experience and the discrimination that I was faced with as a young Mexican student. In the text José says, ” I wanted to write poems in a way that might give a young person in similar circumstances some comfort.” I also want to be able to write like him. I want someone to read my story and be able to take something from it. I don’t want someone to read it and still feel lost in their journey. The purpose of my narrative is for the reader to feel like they’re not alone. That someone has experienced what they’re going through and was able to make it out of it. My only concern with writing my Narrative is that I won’t be able to portray my message and advice the way I want. I fear that I might be unclear with my writing and won’t be of any help at all. I’m not sure how I’m going to start my narrative. I struggle with introductions and fear I won’t be able to catch the readers attention. I want to make sure my writing is for everyone who has faced discrimination.
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Michelle, this sounds like a great topic. As far as intros go– I know this is weird advice, but I generally tell people not to worry about their intro until they have a rough draft written! I know that’s strange, but for MOST (not all) writers, it works!
Honestly Michelle there are a lot of things that you said that i feel like i can relate too and i also like how honest you were towards the end of your paragraph about intros cause i feel the same way too.
Reading “Maybe I could save myself by writing”, I agreed with you when you said he wrote as if he was trying to give the readers advice. I always believed that fitting in was hard for me as well , and his reading and hearing that others are relating to him honestly goes to show that I am not alone. I honestly think that the way you wrote this paragraph was actually well put together, and I agree with the fact that we need to pull in the readers, by are intros.
Reading “Maybe I could save myself by writing”, I agreed with you when you said he wrote as if he was trying to give the readers advice. I always believed that fitting in was hard for me as well , and his reading and hearing that others are relating to him honestly goes to show that I am not alone. I honestly think that the way you wrote this paragraph was actually well put together, and I agree with the fact that we need to pull in the readers, by are intros.