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The Narrative and Reflective Self in Writing a Memoir

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Write a 2 page letter to Patricia Hampl, business letter format, single spaced, responding to her article about writing a memoir. How does your experience writing your own memoir validate/question/challenge her claims in "Memory and Imagination"? As you write this letter, you will discuss your own experience as an author of a memoir and cite passages from your memoir as evidence for your claims. When you write the letter, consider carefully what Hampl says about the difference between the narrative self and the reflective self in relation to your own project. Include 2 quotes from the Hampl reading and 2 quotes from your memoir. First person is allowed. No Works Cited page.
Criteria for Evaluation:
• Does your letter demonstrate that you have understood (not necessarily agreed with) Hampl’s ideas?
• Have you utilized your memoir in a way so that appropriate details are presented for this new writing situation?
• Is the language of your letter clear (i.e. easily accessible to the readers), concrete, and appropriate to your purpose (i.e., responding to the author’s claims about memoir)?
• Do you avoid clichés and stilted sentence structures and phrasing?
• Are your grammar problems few enough and insignificant enough that they don’t get in the way of understanding? For instance, is your letter presented in complete sentences? Are subject-verb, pronoun, and verb tense agreement errors rare? Are spelling errors infrequent?
Key 305W outcomes met with this assignment:
 Analyze and Evaluate complex print, digital, and multimodal texts that engage significant academic, professional, or civic issues.
 Apply rhetorical principles appropriate to different purposes and goals, within specific disciplinary, professional and civic communities.
 Research and contribute to specific areas of inquiry by evaluating, synthesizing, and integrating strategies and sources appropriate to genre.
 Adapt and employ conventions to communicate with diverse audiences who are members of or affected by a specific area or discipline.
 Compose a variety of texts, working individually and collaboratively, through processes of drafting, critiquing, reflecting, and editing.

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Course Title：RWS305W
26th September 2018
LETTER
[Address: ]
My name is Yuqian Chen and I recently your memoir “Memory and Imagination”, which provided insights on how to write one’s autobiography. It is clear that remembering key details of an experience is necessary to write a powerful memoir, since anyone can write a story, but not everyone can be convincing and connect with readers. What surprised me is that readers also look into their own lives when reading memoirs, yet the most common narratives is that it is only the writers who reflect on their experiences. It is as though, writers reveal their souls when they write memoirs, as they ought to be accurate as much as possible and be unambiguous in the way they present their narratives. I wrote a short memoir Thanksgiving Holiday Memories, which is one of the most memorable days for my family and I.
As writing a memoir focuses on what is remembered and how it is important to retell the story by remembering numerous times. When I first got the idea to explore one particular the Thanksgiving memory, I sought to evaluate what this meant to me. You state “If we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us -- to write the first draft and then return for the second draft -- we are doing the work of memoir”. I found this useful as I had memory fragments, when I wrote the first draft and needed to remember the important details in the next draft. Even when an event is recent, recollecting all the details is a change, but since the Thanksgiving Holiday was one of the most memorable experiences, I remembered what was relevant.
I now appreciated the need to reconstruct m my memory as it was easier to interpret what happened when writing the memoir. I revised the memoir as I jogged my memory and helped me identify what was most significant in the account and even evaluating interpretations about the event and memory about myself. Telling the story helped me make sense of my life and experiences, and you indicated that narration is one way to articulate and express one’s experiences. For instance, I remembered my feelings prior, during and after the Thanksgiving, and it was easier to articulate different activities and experience during the festive period. “However, before getting immersed in the festive mood, I remembered the assignment that I fretted the most: painting the Thanksgiving decorations”.
Personal writing is closely intertwined with memory and lived experiences as the narrative contains elements of personal essays and memoirs, and in many cases there is storytelling as reflected by moving through space and time. You remembered about first piano lessons as they were memorable, and I have also focused on the self to investigate and explain how Thanksgiving memoirs impacted me and my outlook on life. I agree that the memoirs address the meaning of what happened at a certain time, and not simply what happened as is the case wi...
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