narrative essay assignment

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The following instructions will help you correctly set up your essays in MLA format. You must be

working in Word!!

Setting MLA pagination:

Click Insert, select Page Number, select Plain #3—while there, type your last name and space ONE time.

It should look like this: Vernon 1

Now double click below the header line and you’ll come to body of document.

Setting correct heading information:

At the very top of the document, click on Home. Within the paragraph area, select line spacing (has up

and down arrows w/4 lines beside it). Set to 2.0.

Type your first and last name

Instructor Vernon

ENG1113 VG (whatever section you’re in)

Day Month Year (no abbreviations allowed!!, e.g., 10 October 2012)

Title

Hit center button and type your title. Your title should reflect the essence of your paper –make it

interesting. It shouldn’t be a sentence—and shouldn’t be more than about three words—also, NO bold,

NO all caps, NO italics, NO quotation marks. Now, after typing your title, click ONE time and then set for Align Left.

Now you are ready to begin typing essay—and don’t forget that paragraphs are indented—hit tab once.

You will NEVER click the return button more than ONE time b/c everything in MLA is two spaces apart.

Narrative Essay Assignment Sheet

Topic Choices:

Please see the other sheet that I posted entitled, “Grading Process for Essays.”

  1. Write an essay about the social activities that make up your weekend.
  2. Discuss a time in your life when you were faced with a life-altering choice.
  3. How might life be “simpler” if we all lived without so much technology?
  4. Discuss a time in your life when you were embarrassed publicly.
  5. Discuss a time in your life when you were forced to learn from an experience.

Grading Process for Essays

Your final grade for each essay will be total in the following manner:

  • 70% of your grade will come from content
  • 30% of your grade will come from correctness

Content is made up of the following (I will list these in order of importance):

  1. Grasp of the assigned topic
  2. Development of thesis statement
  3. Interesting and logical introduction
  4. Effective topic sentences
  5. Organized paragraphs
  6. Unity throughout the essay
  7. Effective transitions
  8. Logical conclusion (that restates the thesis in a new way)
  9. Overall coherence (the essay must support the thesis statement)
  10. Effective tone and mood (know your audience)

I assign points for correctness in the following manner:

  • 15 can be earned for the introduction
  • 40 points can be earned for the body
  • 15 points can be earned for the conclusion

The other 30 points will come from grammar and MLA format

Each essay MUST be 2 pages in length, and it MUST follow MLA format (use Times New Roman, 12 point font). Also, YOU MUST submit your essay in a doc or docx format. I CANNOT open anything else; you will get a ZERO if I cannot open your file. If you fail to follow these guidelines, I will not grade your essay. Also, I will only mark the same grammatical error a couple of times. For example, if you have 5 comma splices, I might only mark the first two, but I will tell you in the form of a comment that you really need to work on comma splices. I will grade the first 2 essays that you submit more heavily (meaning that I will make more marks and annotations). After that, I will begin to make general comments. I do this because I eventually want you to find your own mistakes.

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