This paper will show a little of yourself to your readers, and also will help yo

This paper will show a little of yourself to your readers, and also will help you to discover that part of yourself and your interests that you’ll be excited to explore and write about for an academic audience for the rest of the term.
This essay will follow the structure of narrative writing described here . Think about one or two pivotal times when you discovered that you were really smart about something. For example, you could rattle off sports statistics (like Gerald Graff says in his essay), or you beat all of your friends at video games, or you could create art (visual like photography or painting, writing, acting, video production–anything). Remember those one or two times, and recreate those scenes for your reader.
Remember that a narrative tells a story. Tell those stories using the description and dialogue and purpose that will allow your reader to know your point. This video has additional tips ) for how to make your narrative matter to you AND have the story-telling elements that will make it memorable. Memorable stories do the best job in conveying your purpose.
Your essay should be 1,000 words and should ensure that the reader knows the one thing that you are good at. Refer to the parts of Graff’s essay (practicing the “they say” part of They Say, I Say that is described in Chapter 2) that are similar to your own discovery.
See a sample of this kind of essay here
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This paper should be 1,000 to 1,500 words. Successful papers will include the following:
Introduction that grips the reader and indicates the purpose of the essay
Thesis statement that gives the essay an identifiable purpose (why these events (or one event) led you to be the person you are with regard to your “hidden intellectualism).
Focus on the narrative event/purpose that does not stray from the point
Narrative elements like setting, characterization, description including sensory description, and dialogue (see the resources noted above for more about how to do this).
First person point of view