Hi Dr Rivera and my classmates! I hope everyone had a great weekend!
Last Tuesday, we met at the moodle room and the importance of descriptive narration. As patterns of writing, description and narration are almost always associated. We would almost never describe something without relating it to somenthing else, especially to a story, or narrative. What is the Narrative? The narrative is an account of an incident or a series of incidents that make up a complete and significant action. Each narrative has five parts:
Situation (the background for the action), Conflict (friction, such as a problem in the surroundings, with another person, or within the individual), Struggle (which need not be physical, is the manner of dealing with conflict), Outcome (is the result of the struggle), and Meaning (the significance of the story, which may be deeply philosophical or simple, stated or implied). Because most narratives relate experience in time order, the verb tense is likely to be the past rather than the present (Most narratives (often summaries) based on literature are written in the present tense, Most historical events and personal experiences are writtem in the past tense). Point of View shows the writer's relationship to the material and the subject, and it usually doesn't change within a passage, and Dialogue is used purposefully in narration to characterize, particularize, and support ideas. Then, we move to Descriptive Patterns. Descriptive is the use of words to represent the appearance or nature of something. There are two Types of Descriptive. Effective Objective Description presents the subject clearly and dirctly as it exists outside the realm of emotions. Effective Subjective Description is also concerned with clarity and it may be direct, but it conveys a feeling about the subject and sets a mood while making a point. As a writer of description, we will need to focus our work to accomplish four specific tasks: Emphasize a single point (dominant impression); Choose our words with care; Establish a perspective from which to describe our subject (point of view); Position the details for coherence (order).
Situation (the background for the action), Conflict (friction, such as a problem in the surroundings, with another person, or within the individual), Struggle (which need not be physical, is the manner of dealing with conflict), Outcome (is the result of the struggle), and Meaning (the significance of the story, which may be deeply philosophical or simple, stated or implied). Because most narratives relate experience in time order, the verb tense is likely to be the past rather than the present (Most narratives (often summaries) based on literature are written in the present tense, Most historical events and personal experiences are writtem in the past tense). Point of View shows the writer's relationship to the material and the subject, and it usually doesn't change within a passage, and Dialogue is used purposefully in narration to characterize, particularize, and support ideas. Then, we move to Descriptive Patterns. Descriptive is the use of words to represent the appearance or nature of something. There are two Types of Descriptive. Effective Objective Description presents the subject clearly and dirctly as it exists outside the realm of emotions. Effective Subjective Description is also concerned with clarity and it may be direct, but it conveys a feeling about the subject and sets a mood while making a point. As a writer of description, we will need to focus our work to accomplish four specific tasks: Emphasize a single point (dominant impression); Choose our words with care; Establish a perspective from which to describe our subject (point of view); Position the details for coherence (order).
I hope everyone has a great weekend and see you all online next week.
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Hai, Zhan(Odin)
Hai, Zhan(Odin)
Odin,
ReplyDeleteGood description! It's important to understand the different parts of the narrative. Your notes will also come in handy for the test! Good luck!
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Dr. Rivera