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Tag: personal essay

April 9, 2024Rebekah O'Dell

A Guide to Narrative Writing Genres

Do students in your school write a personal essay of some kind every single year? They do in the three schools I’ve taught in. In fact, narrative writing — especially nonfiction, personal narratives — are perhaps the most ubiquitous piece of writing taught in every school I’ve ever visited. How can we differentiate that — […]

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