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Narrative Essay Self-Assessment

Reflection on “It’s a New Life”

This is my first literary narrative assignment, and it reflected all my shortcomings in writing. It retelling the struggle I experienced when I was new to America. How my life was impacted by reading was detailly showed in the writing. The narrative utilized by the sequence in my first English class in America. The lack of English made me feel uncomfortable and hopeless. When I got the book Fahrenheit 451as my first assignment, my emotions collapsed. My mom encouraged me by showing me a video about a blind man reading his book in braille. I regained confidence after I watched the video, then I tried to read the book again. The book is an inspirational book which can engage people to read. It inspired me and I felt hopeful when I return to class. As the years passed, I had a great improvement in myself. This event made me realized the benefit of reading. When I recollected this moment on my writing, I was cried. It remained me that many youths in NYC were abandoned their education since they had a hard time to use English to communicate. Thus the purpose of my literacy narrative is to inspire people who want to abandon their education while they face struggles language. Those people can be someone who wants to give up their educational opportunity, no matter they were elder or immigrant. Reading can change our lives and improve yourself. This literacy narrative helps me develop the strategies on writing. If I had abandoned reading, I might never become an enlightened teacher in my life. Vivid details about my emotions such as “discomfort and apprehensive feelings started to scramble up my body while I stepped into the school” and “I felt flustered and hopeless and noted that I had a hard time with comprehension” during the English class are highlights the situation that I faced and my stance toward negative. But later on, the book and my mom give me positive power thus I stick to learn English. However, I need to work on the grammar and the rhetorical situation because there is a gap between resolution and conclusion. Throughout this assignment, I noticed the deficiency of my writing. And it will help me to improve myself in the future.

In this assignment, I noted I need to revise the essay as much as I can. Because each revise could help me to improve the essay. When we decided our topic, we should make an outline because it could help us to make better various stages of the writing process. Throughout the outline, I could easier to locate or move my paragraph. Other than revision, to read the essay out loud or listen to others suggestion was very important for our writing because you will find the defects in the essay. Like Jinfu, one of my peer review partners, she told me to add more detail to the setting of my narrative in order to get a clear background of myself. As the reader, some suggestion helped the writer a lot because we usually neglect some important obstacle in our writing. I learned a lot from this assignment, especially the importance of rhetorical situations. It gave me a clear direction on writing, and it was a great lesson in my life.