Thursday, December 4, 2014

The Personal Essay Frequently Asked Questions

Many students have been asking for more concrete direction regarding the personal essay.  I put together a document that answers frequently asked questions. I hope it helps.  Let me know if you have any questions.

https://drive.google.com/a/fhps.net/file/d/0B0ndMsFKkNibcTNOenc1V1RNY0lwZFlFMm55MTQwU2NQdkl3/view?usp=sharing

Also, I found the following to be a very useful article about the creative process and visualizing the personal essay informative: https://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/picturing-personal-essay-visual-guide.

You can find many of the personal essays referenced in the above article on-line.

 Like here: http://www.psych.utah.edu/psych4130/Berry_W.pdf

And here: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~facoba/readings/cofer.htm

And here: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/06/24/the-fourth-state-of-matter

And here: http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/strtwoolfessay_2.htm

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