Introduction to All I Want for Christmas

I chose this piece for my writers choice because I think it shows a bit of the fun side of my writing, and I also wanted to show some of my background in my portfolio. This paper was my second Major Writing Assignment, which was a narrative piece. By writing this paper, I learned how to tell a story and use transitional words and phrases to allow for a narrative arc, which gives the sense of a beginning, climax, and an ending, instead of just explaining something in detail. I used transitions throughout my paper to make it sound more like a time line. For example, In the begining I wrote, "After the sun had set on a frosty December night, my sister Sarah, who was only ten years old at the time, and I were in for the scare of our lifetime." To bring the reader into the climactic part, I expressed, "With confusion and adrenaline pumping through my body, I jumped up and ran towards the bathroom where my dad was showering." To start the descent of my paper, I used closing words such as finally, like shown in this example: "Finally I began to absorb what he was telling me."