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- Title: How I Overcame a Terribly Trying Moment in My Life As a Writing Studio Tutor (Tutor's Column) (Personal Account)
- Author : Writing Lab Newsletter
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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At the beginning of the fall semester, I met with a first-year student who brought in a paper she wrote for a narrative essay assignment, one requiring her to describe a particularly trying moment in her life and to relate to her readers what she learned from this experience. Not all of us at age 18 or 19 have weathered a moment that qualifies as "trying," yet this student felt she had developed a narrative that had achieved this goal. With a shy smile, she pulled out her paper and set it between us on the table. The crux of her piece was that she had suffered through the experience of being loved and adored by her father's side of the family, but, in comparison, had received only lukewarm affection from her mother's side. In one instance, her maternal aunt had complimented a cousin on her new hair style, but failed to mention the student writer's equally lovely new hairdo. In a supposedly more grievous incident, this same aunt missed one of the writer's high school basketball games, leaving only a few rows of her father's side of the family to cheer her to victory. The collective impact of these experiences left the student feeling isolated and abandoned. In the end, however, she learned that she did not need her mother's side of the family to accomplish great things and, almost completely on her own, applied to college and was accepted. She planned to get through the entire four years with the support of "only" her parents and twenty or so of her father's family.
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