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Agenda Conclusions Reminders Homework: The final draft of your personal narrative is due tomorrow.

Workshopping Your final draft will be evaluated according to ideas and development, organization, and language use. Organization Appropriate paragraph breaks Flow: transitions, topic sentences, paragraphs stay on topic Introduction that leads directly to the body of the essay and orients the reader Conclusion that gives a sense of completeness and also a sense of direction

Conclusions Guidelines: The scope of your conclusion can be significantly broader than the scope of the body of your essay. The conclusion should be appropriate for your essay and your essay only. Your conclusion should aim to give a sense of completeness to your essay, but since your story is ongoing the conclusion will still be somewhat open. Do not introduce material that should have been more fully elaborated in the body of the essay. Your conclusion or the paragraph before will probably give some assessment of the story, including criticism and self-criticism. In other words, you should identify mistakes that you or other people made during the course of the story or wider social problems that a group of people can solve.

Final Drafts Review the rubric Proofread Staple the draft that you workshopped or the comments from your workshop partner to your essay. Your final draft should be in front of the workshop material. The final draft of your personal narrative is due tomorrow.