The first step to writing a narrative essay is to capture your ideas and thoughts in the prewriting stage. Use aids such as a word webs, lists, and charts. These graphic organizers can help you gather facts, develop character descriptions, and identify sensory details for your essay. Using those facts and details, you will start to get the story on paper, clarify your main idea, or thesis, work on its organization, and fine-tune the details and word choices.
While the primary focus of an narrative essay is for the writer to relay a point about a personal experience to the reader, style and grammar are also key to the essay's success. Your essay should include these stylistic and grammatical components:
dialogue
correct use of gerunds, infinitives, participles, and phrases
use of questions
use of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences
use of adverbial and adjective clauses
Review some mechanics and grammar details to help you with your writing.
Lesson Activity—Teacher-Graded
Go to the Writing a Narrative section of your Lesson Activities. Choose a topic that you can relate to and write a narrative essay.The first step to writing a narrative essay is to capture your ideas and thoughts in the prewriting stage. Use aids such as a word webs, lists, and charts. These graphic organizers can help you gather facts, develop character descriptions, and identify sensory details for your essay. Using those facts and details, you will start to get the story on paper, clarify your main idea, or thesis, work on its organization, and fine-tune the details and word choices.
While the primary focus of an narrative essay is for the writer to relay a point about a personal experience to the reader, style and grammar are also key to the essay's success. Your essay should include these stylistic and grammatical components:
dialogue
correct use of gerunds, infinitives, participles, and phrases
use of questions
use of simple, compound, complex,...