Potential Narrative Topics

If you absolutely cannot think of your own narrative topic then you can choose one of the following as a point of departure.

1) Describe your bedroom back home. Use the objects in the room as reference points to talk about various points in your childhood and your leaving them and coming to college.

2) Pick a friend or a group of friends that were important to you. Describe some of your favorite moments with them in order to demonstrate, in a rhetorical savvy way, the value, difficulties, or nuances of friendship.

3) Using key personal experiences, write about the way that a certain technology has changed your life--a cell phone (or smartphone), a car, a computer, an instrument, etc. Use that technology as a point of departure to comment on the role of technology in shaping your life.

Anyone in the class should be able to write any of these and the general idea of the purpose is already set for you, although the particularities of it will be up to you (there is a TON of room in each of these prompts). You should see how each prompt points you to something specific--1 forces you to use objects from your room, 2 forces you to reference friends, and 3 uses technologies--that will then lead you into even more specific things: the experiences themselves.

You will need to describe these experiences and then relate them together to make a point.