Writing narrative essays can cause children to specialize in particular forms of writing while becoming deficient in another.
Narrative essays are highly useful in cases where the student’s perception has to be exercised. The student is given a chance to explore his/her knowledge base when an assignment constitutes a narrative essay. However, the narrative essay may also have its disadvantages. This is because of the fact that the writing of a narrative essay gives the student a high degree of independence. This independence, while it may appear to resemble the action of a mama eagle when she pushes her child over the edge of the nest in order to make it fly, is not one that comes forth as equally successful when administered to higher grade students.
When assigned the task of writing a narrative essay, students tend to feel relaxed and at ease. This is partly because of the fact that the composition of a narrative essay puts a student in a place where there is no check left on the student. Using the independence of the structure of the narrative essay, the student is able to make use of elements of the subject with which he/she is fully aware while sidelining other elements of the same subject that the student is hesitant towards. This way, the student’s deficiency continues to increase as the student writes the narrative essay.
In light of this fact, we can surmise that modern-day education should be designed so that it functions in a manner such that it can be trusted to root out the deficiencies of students and deal with them rather than letting the student remain in a denial of sorts and become more deficient with each narrative essay written.