The exercises review sentence fragments and run-on sentences. First, read WR, section E, on aspects of effective sentences. As you do the exercises, you may need to consult with relevant portions of these pages to assist you in completing the exercises successfully. You will need to revise these and send your revisions to me. The personal essay is a form by which one reveals something of one s character, one s sense of humor, one s personality, and one s personal interests and opinions.
Personal essays are common types of writing.
The topics of personal essays often arise from the worries, troubles, challenges, successes, and wonders of everyday life. If you have trouble choosing a topic, you may try remembering a moment that powerfully moved you. If you search your memory, you can find at least one moment that is branded there forever by the sheer power of joy, fear, or guilt. If you are writing chiefly about yourself and your own experience, your aim is self-expression. You seek not so much to affect the reader or to explain the outside world to him or her as to express your personal thoughts, feelings, experiences, and recollections.