Possible Cancer: Personal Narrative Analysis

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For my final revision project, I decided to revise my fist essay “The Visible Cancer”. The reason I chose to edit this essay was the special connection that I had to it. When writing this essay, I was very invested in telling the audience how I had felt and describing what had happened with my dad’s cancer as best as I could. In making these revisions I thought it would be a good way to look back on how I viewed the situation when I first wrote this right after it happened compared to how I feel about it now after several months. In my paper, I chose to make certain big additions to my paper. The first major change was adding a personal description of the experience as my dad had described it to me. I feel this will give the reader a more

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