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Personal Narrative: My Personal Memoir

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My personal memoir from this semester was written about a particular game of chess with a friend. I started by spending lots of time listing different ideas, and understanding how well those ideas would fit into a personal memoir format. This paper taught me how to use words to paint a picture in the reader’s mind. It was difficult to find one main point and keep that point relevant throughout the entire paper. Instead, I found it easier to divide the main point up into smaller ideas and explain each of those individually and then connect them all at the end of the paper. I explored what it meant to guide the reader through certain ideas, rather than just blatantly stating facts. This lead to some weaknesses to the paper, such as, the

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