NARRATION

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NARRATION

• Definition
• Telling of a real or fictional story in oral or
  written form

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NARRATION

• Strategies Writing Narration
• Determine your purpose. Is it to inform,
  persuade or entertain?
• Determine your audience.
• Determine if you will use dialogue
• to show rather than tell.

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NARRATION

• Important Points to Remember
• Has a point or purpose
• Is a powerful attention-getting device
• Explains ideas or provides examples
• Asks the reader to follow actions through a
• time sequence (chronological order)

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NARRATION CHECKLIST

• Before submitting your paper, review these
• points
• Does the narrative have a clear focus?
• Can reader follow the chronology of events?
• Do you write in a consistent tense or time? Does
  your paper contain illogical shifts from past to
  present?

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NARRATION CHECKLIST

• Does the narrative flow evenly, or is there too
  much detail?
• Does your narrative maintain a consistent point
  of view? Do you switch from first person to
  third without reason?
• Does your narrative suit your purpose, reader, or
  situation?

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NARRATION

• Important Points to Remember
• Usually told in order of occurrence, but not
  always
• Shows rather than tells the purpose
• Uses a dominant impression to create drama and
  engage the audience

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NARRATION

• Methods of Organization
• Beginning at the beginning
• Provides readers with little direction to later
  events
• Most traditional way of storytelling
• May be difficult to determine when the narrative
  should start

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NARRATION

• Methods of Organization
• Beginning at the middle or at a turning
• point
• Can arouse interest by introducing a dramatic
  scene
• Common in nonfiction, biographies, and histories
  written for a general audience
• Can be viewed as distorting

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NARRATION

• Methods of Organization
• Beginning at the end
• Serves to dramatize the final event
• Removes suspense, providing a stronger sense of
  cause and effect
• May imply the final outcome was inevitable

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NARRATION

• Strategies of Writing Narration
• Determine your purpose.
• Define your role. Use first person, either as a
  participant or witness of an event use third
  person for objectivity.
• If you use dialogue, you will use the third
  person point of view as well as first person.
• Consider your audience.
• Identify the beginning and end of your story.

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NARRATION

• Strategies for Writing Narration
• Give a frame of reference (time, date)
• Select a chronological pattern.
• Make use of transitional statements to move the
  narrative, such as later that day or two weeks
  later.