Essay On My Literacy Narrative

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My literacy narrative I turned in last week was not a complicated paper, but I had a few troubles along the way. I had just one main problem and it was the introduction. My comma mistakes and trying to include enough support in my conclusion was not a breeze to do either. Overall, the essay was not hard to write about it was just a few little mistakes that I had along the way that made it complicated.
My main problem was my introduction paragraph. Writing on my developmental English class was a great idea, but I could not get enough support for my introduction. The introduction paragraphs are the ones I always have trouble with. I always have enough support in the body of the essay just not enough in my introduction. While sitting and trying to figure out how to make my introduction have enough support and be interesting. I finally figured out to tell some of the things I was going to write about in my body and put it in my introduction to make it have support and be more interesting. By doing this I knew it would make my introduction broader because, it gave my topic sentence more claim. It also helped the reader get a better outlook of what the story will be about.
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I had to try to figure out a way to not leave the reader thinking about the main idea. So, I took main parts out of my body paragraphs and put them in my conclusion. That way the person reading could see that they were not left hanging at the end of the story. Another confusing thing was putting evidence in my conclusion and trying to make in flow smoothly. One example is I took each main part from a paragraph and put it in order so it would not get the reader confused and make them quit reading. Doing that it made the body flow smoothly and added extra main ideas from each body paragraph, and it made the conclusion have enough closure and not leave the reader

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