Using The Non-Fiction Narrative to Develop Research Questions

This lesson script makes an effort to link what is typically the first assignment in 101, the creative non-fiction essay, to the research essay. The first step in this approach is to get the students to think about their personal narratives through a more critical lens. The second step then is to introduce the students to sources that relate to a topic touched on in their personal narrative. The aim here is to help students begin to investigate a research question that has personal meaning to them, that they themselves intimated in another writing assignment, but at the same time, they may not have recognized because the context of the research essay and the non-fiction assignment are so different.

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