Solinet
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 Subject: How to Write about a Personal Experience  Wed 25 May - 23:08 |
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Some Suggestions for Writing a Personal Experience Essay
- When you see the topic, quickly choose one experience from your life that relates to the topic.
- Write down some quick notes about the experience on a separate piece of paper.
- Don't waste time on a formal introduction; jump right into the experience or story. Save general statements for the conclusion.
- For most personal experience essays, use simple past or past continuous tense. If something happened previous to the personal experience, use past perfect.
- Include details to make your essay interesting (but don't get off the topic.)
Remember:Also:
| see, hear, smell, feel, taste.emotions, thought, actions.(What were you thinking, feeling and doing?)
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Conclude by telling what you learned from the experience.
Don't worry about grammar. Take five minutes at the end to proofread your essay. (Reading aloud helps you catch your mistakes.)
Remember: Specific is Terrific!
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Solinet
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| Subject: Re: How to Write about a Personal Experience Wed 25 May - 23:11 |
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EXAMPLES OF SITUATIONS :
- Tell about a terrifying experience that you had when you were young.
- Describe an important social event that you took part in. (wedding, church party, sports event, etc.)
- Describe one of your grandparents. What has he/she accomplished in life? Would you like to be like him/her?
- Tell about a family outing or vacation. What did you learn from the experience?
- Have you ever been involved in some serious wrongdoing? What lesson did you learn from the experience?
- Is there anything in your past that you would like to change? How would you change it if you could?
- Relate an exciting experience from which you developed a particular talent or interest.
All of us learn from our failures as well as successes. What is something you gained from an unsuccessful experience?
- Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do
anything to get it? How did you feel after you received or attained the
thing that you desired? Did it make your life happier or more miserable?
Tell about such an experience.
- Who was the most influential person in your life? How did this person make you want to become better?
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