In the readings for Unit 1, our authors discuss what exactly they enjoy about their field of study. Sacks narrate his early discovery of the joys and risks of chemical experimentation. Did i on discusses her passion for writing or, more specifically, discovering how stories take shape in what she calls “the pictures of her mind.” McKellar describes how her love for math burgeoned in a way that allowed her to assert her individuality while shedding the burden of her identity as a child celebrity. In a sense, they each tell the story of how they fell in love with their discipline.
Prompt: For this assignment, I’d like you to write a narrative essay, in which you tell a similar story about your own experience: what led you to pursue your major in Kinesiology. Kinesiology is the scientific study of human body movement. Kinesiology addresses physiological, biomechanical, and psychological dynamic principles and mechanisms of movement.
Make sure to center the narrative on a single significant event or experience that first revealed to you the joy, possibility, or challenge of pursuing this major. Above all, your story should address the prompt; offer a clear focus, thesis, or theme; and contain a manageable plot appropriate for a five-page assignment. No sources are required for this essay, but I will provide a video link at the bottom that will help in writing this narrative essay. Make sure not to give too much information, you are not writing a biography. REMEMBER, this essay needs to be 5 PAGES, DOUBLE SPACED. DO NOT PLAGIARIZE and copy the example that I will attach!!!
This narrative essay needs to include the following:
1. Have some dialogue but not too much, use the dialogue sparingly and not too much because you are not writing a play.
2. Needs to have action. Something needs to happen. The event can be about anything.
3. Needs to focus on a specific event that takes place over a small amount of time, not your whole life story. Focus on the important details, not the mundane. Need a purpose as to why you are telling the story and need to stay focused on that purpose. Needs a central focus, thesis, and theme, and flow in a logical order.
4. Needs to have great sensory details. There have to be vivid descriptions and powerful imagery. It needs to show the readers and make them feel the events being told.
5. Needs to explain why this event is significant. How did it change you? What did you learn? These ideas need to be shared in the conclusion of the narrative essay.
6. Needs to be written in the first person.
