descriptive personal essay

writer is amply evident

• front and center

• use “I”

• opinions and perspective as a writer’s own

written for public reading

tell story

relate sequence of events

point

• location

  • cancer clinic

  • monsters inc

• if you can have a point to your narrative

• significance

  • why was it important to you?

  • what were the takeaways?

  • implied thesis

in time, but not in real time

• compressed timeline

arrangement

• straight chronology then move things around

1st or 3rd person

present or past tense