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Personal Narrative Analysis

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The first major paper’s instructions was to reflect on a time when I wrote for a specific purpose. I had chosen to write about the time I, a former cancer patient, was a mentor for children with cancer who were dealing with depression. My objective was to mentor and help those kids through their depression, chemotherapy, and usual life activities. As a bible study teacher, I knew that kids learned important life lessons through vivid stories; therefore, I decided to write a story about how I got through my depression– a story about my journey to happiness. I wanted my story to encourage them on how to get through their depression.
Although I have always been an amateur writer, but I have improved in a few are areas. My typical sentence structures in my papers were simple; however, in my first major paper, I had less simple sentences and more complex sentences. My complex sentences consist of many adjective clauses and subordinate clauses. Also, my transition had greatly improved. I used to have an extremely difficult time trying to transition into new ideas, but I recently had a better time transitioning into new ideas and paragraphs better. …show more content…

Vocabulary is what I need to improve in the most. I have a very narrow horizon of vocabulary. I plan on using the thesaurus more so I have a better variety of words. Another way I can improve my writing is reading a variety of material such as books, articles, magazines, and poems. Reading novels is a proficient and fun way for me to learn new words. I tend to read many scholarly articles for research, which contains a surplus of words I have never seen, so reading more scholarly articles would be a great way to improve my vocabulary. Vocabulary is my weakest point in writing, but it is not the only skill that needs

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