Structure of a Personal Essay

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Structure of a Personal Essay
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• The following presentation is intended to show
  you how the common personal essay is built.
• These essays describe some personal experience of
  the writer, examine some point or tell a story
  based on the life of the narrator.

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Introduction

• The hook
• Personal essay should definitely start with some
  fact, humor or other information that can grab
  readers attention and create an interest for
  further reading.
• Set the scene
• You as the director have to provide information
  about everything and everybody. You need to
  identify the place of action, the main and
  secondary characters.

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• Main idea
• Thesis statement in personal essay serves a
  little bit different purpose than in other types
  of academic works. In this case the paper can
  start with describing the conditions when the
  situation has happened It was a cloudy Sunday
  morning and propose a moral of the story or the
  lesson that was learned by you, the writer.

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Body of the paper

• Show, do not tell
• Good personal essay must include detailed
  description of the events that happened. It is a
  great idea to refer to senses how you felt, what
  you heard. You need to describe your condition
  during the time. Also details and observations
  during the event are important.
• Supporting evidence
• The evidence in personal essay is the lesson that
  has been learned by the writer. Or it might
  demonstrate how the event was significant for
  your life.

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• Passage of time
• The most common way to present the information is
  chronological order. This way the readers will
  not be lost in time and do not lose the interest
  and focus on your story.
• Transitions
• Each section and paragraph of the essay has to
  make some changes to the story. However, there
  has to be a connection between the parts of the
  paper. It is right to use logical order.

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Conclusion

• The morale of the story
• The closing part of the paper should be focused
  at final action and include personal reflections
  of the writer on the story. You need to identify
  the morale of the story and show the lesson you
  think should be learned from the event.

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