Self Revision for personal narrative



Personal Narrative Self Revision

Please follow the steps below to revise your own essay. Write any revisions onto your essay so that you can make changes accordingly at home on your computer.

1. Check that your personal narrative tells about a SINGLE story from your life. If your essay “tells” about more than one story from your life, select ONE story and DELETE the rest. You will have to go back and elaborate upon that one story.

2. Check for an introduction strategy. Does your essay grab the reader’s attention from the first sentence? If not, revise accordingly.

3. Does your story have a clear beginning, middle, and end? If not, revise accordingly.

4. Highlight the three different types of voice in your essay: striking language, exact language, and natural language. If you see that your essay does not contain much voice, you will need to add more in.

5. Skim your essay for “be” verbs and underline them: am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been. If you have more than three of these verbs, REPLACE them with ACTION verbs. This means you may have to rewrite or reconstruct the sentence.

6. Check for adverbs, adjectives, and specific/ exact nouns. Revise accordingly.

7. Check for sentence variety. Do all of your sentences begin the same way or do they vary? Do your sentences vary in sentence length? Revise accordingly.

8. Carefully read through your essay and check for comma errors, sentence errors, typos, and/or other grammatical mistakes.

9. Does your essay have a catchy title? If not, revise the title accordingly.

10. Have you used dialogue in your essay? Is the dialogue purposeful and effective? Is it formatted correctly? Revise accordingly.

11. Have you used at least one simile, metaphor, and personification? Are they correct, vivid, and ORIGINAL?? (not cliché such as: as slow as a snail)

12. Check the conclusion paragraph for a lesson learned. Do you communicate this lesson in a way that shows depth of thought and originality? Revise accordingly.

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