This is what topic given
“I am going to write about a time where i felt like coming to USA as an international student is a wrong choice and not knowing what to do about it. Growing up i always wanted to come to US for my futher studies but that seemed to have just lost in between financial problems and willing to study. On 1 tab i had list of assignments that were due and on other tab i had list of bills i needed to pay. The worst part was not being able to share with anyone, not even with my parents and keeping it all inside and trying to hold it all together.
OUR PURPOSE: to engage in critical self-reflection through thinking about our own meaningful experiences and the possible arguments within them; to practice writing a powerful narrative story with a larger dominant impression; to engage creative storytelling with argumentation living within it; to write an assertive narrative with an implied thesis.
What You Will Do:
1. PARTICIPATE in class discussions of story and argument
2. Prewrite ideas for a story that has an argument within it
3. Create a storyboard/outline/narrative line to plan details of scene, character, action, dialogue, suspense, emotional truth, flashback/forward, etc.
4. Draft and revise an essay of at least 2 pages double spaced 12-point Times New Roman or Arial font and 1-inch margins
5. Edit and proofread word choice, phrasing, and narrative effect to produce a final copy
6. Serve as a respondent and reviewer during writing workshops helping others
7. Consider gaining important help from tutors and SI leaders during any stage of the writing process
8. Upload your final draft for grading
ASSIGNMENT SPECIFICATIONS:
• 2 pages of double-spaced text minimum of original student writing in the form of a narrative (not counting header, blank lines, or title lines, but actual original text written by you!)
• Audience appeal (intent to interest and engage your readers in following your story but also experiencing your argument as it reveals itself through the story)
• A powerful and intentional title that shows creative word choice
• Research citations and entries for the 2 particular sources required
• Elements expected in a story (scene, descriptive detail, characters and characterization, dialogue/characters talking or narrators thinking to themselves
• Inclusion of at least 1 cited quotation from an interview with someone related to the story/topic or present when the incident/moment happened. ) INTERVIEW AT LEAST ONE PERSON WHO CAN SOMEHOW “TESTIFY” TO YOUR EXPERIENCE OR OBSERVATION (it could even be the person who experienced what you saw happen!) Find a way to incorporate a quote from this person SMOOTHLY INTO YOUR CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH.
• Inclusion of at video source. INTRODUCE IN YOUR OWN WORDS AND INCORPORATE A WORKING WEB LINK TO A VIDEO THAT RELATES TO YOUR STORY SOMEHOW (you decide that interesting connection as the author!) Close your paper by introducing this video and providing the link to it online. Try to use your closing statement to nudge your readers to think more about the issue hiding within the story you told.
IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS (think carefully about these):
• Time of PLOT: Your story MUST BE PRECISE, based on events EXPERIENCED OR OBSERVED IN 5 minutes to ONE HOUR of time, no more. Yes, you can do this! It’s not an autobiography that you are writing; it’s a short and POWERFUL narrative argument—a story that argues on its own through the powerful way that you tell it! Think of it as a “slice-into-life-up-close-moment-memoir”!
• The Power of Storytelling in Human Nature: Stories “are useful for challenging or reinforcing existing cultural frames, stereotypes, assumptions, human mistakes, misunderstandings, etc. What story can you tell that would do this?
• Story as Delivery Strategy: Think of ways to be persuasive through detail-rich storytelling when argument by itself might not succeed. What powerful assertion could you make through a single non-fiction story from your real life?
• The Power of WITNESSING / OBSERVING: Don’t forget how powerful it can be to witness, listen, observe. The story does not have to happen TO you. You do not have to be IN the story – you can share the importance of what you witnessed happening to others for perhaps even a greater effect!
GRADING CRITERIA FOR THIS PROJECT
1) Content made primarily from STORYTELLING (appropriate genre of narrative)
2) ARGUMENTATIVE dominant impression that comes through without an explicit thesis statement
3) Minimum length requirement and research requirement met or exceeded
4) audience analysis and appeal through narrative elements of character, scene, sensory imagery, action, conflict, pacing/transitions, flashbacks/flashforward, metaphor/style of phrasing, dialogue quotes in authentic spoken language, resolution, etc.
5) Intentional use of TRANSITIONS (temporal/time, spatial/location, and logical/reasoning) to move readers easily through the story for PACING.
6) Evidence of editing work at the word and phrase level to create the POWER OF WORDS used creatively in narrative.
7) Tone appropriate to narrative
8) Voice of the narrator revealing either observer, or participant + observer CLEARLY.
9) College-level sentence structures that are free of serious grammar errors such as run-ons and comma splices
10) Accurate citations to the 2 required source materials and a matching Works Cited page including those two sources and formatted correctly. Don’t forget that you will need to create a CORRECTLY FORMATTED WORKS CITED PAGE with the interview and the video as entries! Reminder: Your Works Cited page is a SEPARATE double-spaced LAST PAGE with a centered header “Works Cited” (always!) and DOES NOT COUNT toward length!
Bonus challenge: Achieve powerful sensory detail and include at least one original metaphor of your own!