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To write a personal narrative, start by choosing a memorable moment, event, or conflict in your life that you want to write about. Use your personal narrative to describe your story, going chronologically through the events.
A personal narrative essay is a creative nonfiction story based on your life experiences. Find tips and techniques for choosing a topic, developing characters, setting the scene, structuring, and more. The Associated Press style provides consistent guidelines for such publications in terms of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and language usage.
In AP style, title case is used for headlines, with all words capitalized except for certain short words. Formal titles are only capitalized when they appear immediately before a name, but make sure they are a formal title and not merely a job description.
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I have a paper due in like 4 hours, which helped me A LOT. THANK YOU!!!! summary: 1. create an outline with all your references in it, with your intro, body and conclusion outlined 2. speak it into your phone with the microphone mode or onto your word document using the voice typing feature 3. edit it, proofread it etc 4. submit it!
This is mind blowing 🗣🗣🗣🗣 I’m an MBA student too!! Thanks so much for this. I procrastinate due to extreme anxiety I’d literally do nothing but start from scratch everyday until the due date. I research way ahead of time and pay attention to current events and stuff then a day or two before I start typing. Once I’m done it’s usually 2 hours before the time it’s due. When I’m done I up and leave home either for a late night movie, grocery shopping, or just take a deep dive into pimple popping articles 🤣🤣
Thanks for this article! I’m in Grad school as well and I actually ended up taking this semester off due to feeling really stressed out. I was writing my papers down in my notebook and then transferring the paper to my computer because otherwise I’d have the worst case of writers block. I think using this talk to text feature could help big time.
I just started and MS degree, but never had to write papers or read textbooks in undergrad as my degree was engineering. Do you skim the references or textbooks to find applicable information or have you read through them and remember them somehow? I can read through the textbooks but it takes too long versus the time we have for the class.
How? Howwww??? Love the idea but I think I am more articulate on paper than in speech. Visually it helps me organize to see what is on the page and what is missing. Definitely I don’t speak words in professional written form. For me the struggle is integrating and synthesizing findings from research sources. I can find a bunch of articles fast, but finding the most relevant research available and choosing the most appropriate to include, is hard too. If I was writing about topics I know well, or an opinion essay it’s much faster. I get so stuckkkk with the middle part!
Eleanor this is utterly brilliant! I don’t have any papers to write, but I do have a book to write! I’m seriously considering using this approach! Thanks so much for sharing your idea, it’s super smart! – I don’t think you’re in any danger of not hitting 500 subscribers anytime soon! You’ll be there before you know it! Wishing you all the best! 🙂
I had this exact thought a few days ago. I remembered doing this a few years ago for a report that my son had to do. Of course he waited to the last minute to tell me that he had a paper due. He was in elementary school at the time and I am not a fast at typing. I just read what he wrote to show him how to do it. Now I have one research paper due in two days and 4 other essays due by next week. I have never done a research paper before and I feel like it is basically a report. Glad I clicked on this. Now I need my brain to soak up this information fast so that I can get my thoughts together.
This is genius! This method is wonderful as it will keep my focus on the flow of the text and allow me to stay engaged in the content of the paper. Pure genius! Thank you so very much for sharing this amazing method. I can generate 1000+ words in less than an hour! After that, all that is left is editing.
i keep a big disorganized notebook for college work, then I have notebooks for their proper subjects. I’ll take the notes from the disorganized book and transcribe them to their respective notebooks. The transcription process is also kind of like studying without being terribly boring. For papers I’ll just write out disorganized thoughts and then group them together, then elaborate on them all on paper.
The hard and time consuming part is not writing it, it’s coming up with the words, information, and how it should be laid out. Your example about wanting to hang out with your friends wasn’t exactly college-worthy writing. I would love to see you speak an actual paper off the top of your head that evaluates some new topic or something so that we can see how this is actually done. If I’m still researching info, writing examples down, an outline, using references etc etc, I can’t just speak them. Perhaps if this is a casual paper it would be easier to speak it. We usually don’t “speak” in an academic way, so this is a bit more complicated. However, I’d love to see this in action. 😉
The problem is I’m not good even at talking. I find it harder when I do a voice message because my mind struggles to construct and organize the ideas I was going to tell in that voice message. My mind kind of like forgets about what I want to say. So… I guess this wouldn’t work for me. I guess I’m just going to stick doing my 300 word essay in at least 6 hours 🙁 I have a 1000 word essay due tomorrow and I don’t even know how I’m going to deal with it
Just did a 5 page yesterday. Not even exaggerating it was a 12 hour endeavor. It was due today, and finished it yesterday and am currently revising it today. Gen Psych. Easy class, although the instructions were absolutely terrible. I’m full online and figured it was only difficult to understand instructions because it wasn’t explained well, although I messaged other classmates and they ensured me I’m not unintelligent. This essay is important cause it will determine if I get an A or B. Currently have a 94% but this is 30% of grade; wish me luck!
Eleanor, I noticed you use the Windows operating system, if you go to the Windows folder titled ease of access there is a voice recognition program that’s just as good as Dragon. It’s already built into Windows system, and has been since??? The first time I used it was win7 I think. But your explanation of writing papers was excellent, that’s how I wrote my first book. Works great for writing a business plan as well, now that I think about it. 😊
thanks for the help. i used to have trouble writing bc i would focus my best on my work but would neglect my newborn children. needless to say, i no longer have any newborn children to worry about so i have more time for essays. however, if that wasnt the case this would be a helpful article. anyone know a cheap cremation service for toddlers?
I love this. I really love this. This is so smart and simple. I never love anything. I am so damn crusty and mean, and I just have nothing but admiration for you for presenting this. I will never subscribe to your modeling work youtube website, but this insight displayed brilliance. I just finished this article, and can say you really helped me improve my writing speed, and productivity. You can take my Like, goddamnit, you genuinely earned it. just brilliant.
Your friend’s husband may have what’s called “dysgraphia”, which makes it difficult to both physically write out words and string words together into a written sentence. It can also cause syntax errors and throw your paragraph structure out of whack, with sentences not flowing together naturally. This has no effect on people’s ability to form sentences while speaking though, so speech-to-text software is often recommended for us.
So this is about how to “type” an essay in 30 min, not how to actually write it from an academic point of view… I mean is good in terms of typing it faster but you need to know what to dictate which is most likely the problem of all of these people who clicked on your article lol. Not to mention it won’t work with my Scottish accent
I’m required to write 1000-1500 words every single day for my work from home internship 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵. . & from the past few days I’ve had no time for myself. I came here coz it’s eve& I haven’t written a single word today. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’m going to try this & add into this comment. Update: tried it. It does work. It didn’t work as dramatically as i expected it to 🤣🤣🤣. . . but it DOES HELP. I’m not planning to practice the method though as I’ve decided to do a typing course. If I’ll run short on time again, ill definitely use the technique.. Like a day ago. .. . . thank you 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
First off, I’m impressed that you are able to explore both your brains and beauty. Second, would love to see you go through a 5-page paper article using this speech-to-text method, it would help me see how efficient you are as I just tried it, and it seems effective but not as quick as you suggested. Wanted to observe how you are thinking on the spot as you write you papers with voice. thanks!
This was Amazing. I thought about this before but didn’t think about using it because I always find that I want to try to what I say after the fact. I feel like writing it gives me the opportunity to go back and correct it when need be. Did you ever come across that problem? Where you would try to monitor what you say or question your thoughts and then find yourself writing it all over again?
Yep, it’s hiring out your typing: the voice-to-text feature is doing what secretaries used to do. A pro tip I learned from a career secretary is to have the writer/dictator hold a pencil and sit with some paper. That helps some people think through the muscle memory of writing by hand, just to get set up – even if they aren’t actually, physically writing anything. Dragon is an OG pioneer in the industry, been doing it at least 20 years. (And it turned out college was good practice for this, since a common drinking game required people to pronounce all of their punctuation out loud!)
Also guys, not sure if you know of the pomodoro technique but it’s a studying technique broke down into 4 intervals or however many you want, and it helps me SO MUCH, I can’t pay attention for too long and this keeps me interested and focused when studying or writing. I also deal with anxiety and this helps break down big assignments and helps to contain my anxiety. I definitely recommend.
I’ve been doing this off an on for a while, but I tend to find that the voice capture can be spotty. Does anyone have any comments on what THE BEST program for dictation is? I haven’t tried out Dragon yet, but how does it compare to the iPhone, Google Docs, or Word? By the way, what I do to write my papers is I just dictate the whole thing (more or less) into the voice recorder and then hit playback and transcribe it the old fashioned way. Invariably what happens is I get a WHOLE lot more words than what I recorded because I’ll have to stop playback to go on creative tangents that enhance what wasn’t on the tape. In any event, the only reason I still do this, which is admittedly still a little longer than her process, is because whenever I use dictation software it stops and starts and doesn’t understand me. If I’m talking for a while and not looking at the screen what the program records can be so dissimilar to what I said that I struggle to even recover my own points! Any thoughts folks??
video starts after intro @ > 2:08 The article Tips: – Voice type/speak your paper 1. Have a essay outline before you voice type (Thesis. What body paragraphs will be about. Conclusion. 2. Format your paper before you voice type (indent, Times New Roman… MLA, APA 3. When speak-writing you will have to say “comma”, “period”. ……………………………………….. <3 Thanks for the tips Eleanor Josefina
The google docs dictation function is so incredibly inaccurate for me. I started using it to take notes on my reading, but it was so inaccurate that my notes were honestly illegible – I honestly had no idea what half of the words were supposed to be when I was done. How do you get around this? Do you use a microphone?