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Dr. Julie Kubala
WGSS 2010
Personal Narrative Assignment
This handout will outline not only the requirements for the paper, but also give you some
guidelines for peer review.
1) Your paper assignment is to write a personal narrative exploring your relationship
with gender, sexuality and/or feminism (identity and/or politics).
2) Although it is a personal narrative, it is important that you include analysis.
3) In order to facilitate the inclusion of sufficient analysis, be sure you can find a
clear and focused main point (thesis statement) in your own and others’ papers.
4) One way to accomplish this goal is to choose a specific experience to describe and
then analyze in the context of its relationship to your identity.
5) One thing to be careful of is to avoid being too broad – you cannot cover your
entire life or identity in a relatively short paper!!!
6) Even though the assignment is to write narrative, storytelling should not take up
more than half the paper.