Checklist for Personal Narrative
Revision Checklist for 's Personal Narrative
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Check off each item after you discuss it with the author.
Style:
The writer has worked to sustain reader interest not only by presenting interesting ideas, but also by using a coherent and interesting writing style. For example:
_____ The reader can clearly tell which writing prompt the author has chosen (without being told by the author!). Which writing prompt did the author choose? ____________________________________
_____ The work is written in first-person point of view.
_____ The tone and content of the opening paragraph help establish mood.
_____ The author relies on descriptive writing to create vivid images (of scenery, props, and characters) that help the reader to “be there.”
_____ In the opening paragraph, and elsewhere where descriptive writing is used, the author has taken every opportunity to construct sentences so the things he or she is describing are the grammatical subjects of the sentences.
_____ If the work contains dialogue, it is there for a clear purpose, helping to advance plot (if there is one), create or sustain mood, or develop characters or relationships between characters.
_____ Wherever dialogue is used, the writer uses a mix of strategies to present and modify attributions.
_____ The tone and content of the direct quotes (if there are any) are appropriate to the characters who are speaking.
_____ The writer uses a mix of compound, complex, and simple sentences throughout the piece
_____ Where appropriate, the writer uses transition words and phrases to begin sentences
_____ The writer organizes her or his thoughts in well-constructed, clear, and coherent paragraphs with clearly stated or implied topic sentences.
_____ The writer uses a rich vocabulary appropriate to the audience and the tone of the work.
_____ The first sentence functions as a “hook” (it is interesting rather than bland or typical).
_____ The work is free of clichés.
_____ The work is free of awkward or illogically constructed sentences.
_____ The work is free of illogical shifts of tense.
_____ I understand every point the writer is trying to make, every sentence, action, piece of dialogue, etc. I have no questions after reading the piece.
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