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From Personal to Public Writing: Your Writing: Personal Writing Review
The "Writing" segments that introduce the chapters of Sentence Sense contain a baker's dozen short topics for writing from personal experience:
- Recounting a recent incident or story (Chapter 2)
- Narrating an experience from the past (Chapter 3)
- Describing a space from direct observation (Chapter 4)
- Describing and explaining a pet peeve (Chapter 5)
- Supporting an opinion (Chapter 8)
- Describing a process (Chapter 9)
- Narrating a memorable first event (Chapter 10)
- Describing how a mood influences behavior (Chapter 11)
- Classifying things or people (Chapter 12)
- Speculating about an ideal society (Chapter 13)
- Describing several objects, implied comparisons (Chapter 14)
- Examining a turning point (Chapter 15)
- Describing a leisure time activity (Chapter 16)
Personal writing of this sort forms the basis of journals, letters to friends, memoirs, meditations, autobiographies, and (with lots of transforming craft) fiction and poetry. It can also help you explore your thoughts and provide an anchor for more general ideas and longer essays. Look up these writing assignments and keep your compositions in a folder so that you can build on what you have done so far.
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