Nama : Wulan Susanti
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Description Of Narrative Writing
When
you are asked to write a short story, or asked to do some "creative
writing", you are doing what is called "Narrative Writing." Narrative
writing is meant to entertain! Part of being human is getting to tell great
stories!
Often,
the word narrative is synonymous with
story. A narrative is the story (fiction or
non-fiction) told and the order in which it is told. Sometimes, there is a narrator, a character
or series of characters, who tell the story. Sometimes, as with most
non-fiction, the author himself/herself in the narrator. Narrative writing is very important in your
day-to-day life. For the rest of your
life,you will write texts, e-mails, cover letters, blogs, etc. about your beliefs,
your ambitions, information you know, and feelings you have. What could be more important?
Narrative
writing in fiction and non-fiction (and even poetry) tells others the stories
of our personal experiences and allows us to gain empathy and sympathy about
the world around us.
Narrative writing is a style
of writing in which a story is told from a particular point of view.
How To Differ From Other Writing
Genres.
As
students prepare to write, they need to think about the purpose of their
writing: Are they writing to entertain? to inform? to persuade? Setting the
purpose for writing is just as important as setting the purpose for reading,
because purpose influences decisions students make about form.
One
of the most important considerations is the genre or form the writing will
take: a story? a letter? a poem? an essay? A writing activity could be handled
in any one of these ways. Students learn to use a variety of writing genres;
six are described in the table below. Through reading and writing, students
become knowledgeable about these genres and how they’re structured (Donovan
& Smolkin, 2002). Langer (1985) found that by third grade, students respond
in distinctly different ways to story- and report-writing assignments; they
organize the writing differently and include varied kinds of information and
elaboration. Because students are learning the distinctions between various
genres, it’s important that teachers use the correct terminology and not label
all writing as “stories.”
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Genre
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Purpose
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Activities
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Descriptive
Writing
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Students
observe carefully and choose precise language. They take notice of sensory
details and create comparisons (metaphors and similes) to make their writing more
powerful.
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- Character
sketches
- Comparisons
- Descriptive
essays
- Descriptive
sentences
- Found
poems
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Expository
Writing
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Students
collect and synthesize information. This writing is objective; reports are
the most common type. Students use expository writing to give directions,
sequence steps, compare one thing to another, explain causes and effects, or
describe problems and solutions.
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- Alphabet
books
- Autobiographies
- Directions
- Essays
- Posters
- Reports
- Summaries
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Journals
and Letters
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Students
write to themselves and to specific, known audiences. Their writing is
personal and often less formal than other genres. They share news, explore
new ideas, and record notes. Students learn the special formatting that
letters and envelopes require.
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- Business
letters
- Courtesy
letters
- Double-entry
journals
- E-mail
messages
- Friendly
letters
- Learning
logs
- Personal
journals
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Narrative
Writing
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Students
retell familiar stories, develop sequels for stories they have read, write
stories about events in their own lives, and create original stories. They
include a beginning, middle, and end in the narratives to develop the plot
and characters.
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- Original
short stories
- Personal
narratives
- Retellings
of stories
- Sequels
to stories
- Story
scripts
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Persuasive
Writing
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Persuasion
is winning someone to your viewpoint or cause using appeals to logic, moral
character, and emotion. Students present their position clearly and support
it with examples and evidence.
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- Advertisements
- Book
and movie reviews
- Letters
to the editor
- Persuasive
essays
- Persuasive
letters
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Poetry
Writing
|
Students
create word pictures and play with rhyme and other stylistic devices as they
create poems. Through their wordplay, students learn that poetic language is
vivid and powerful but concise and that poems can be arranged in different
ways on a page.
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- Acrostic
poems
- Color
poems
- Free
verse Haiku “I Am” poems
- Poems
for two voices
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All
the paragraph absolutely the general step is use topic sentence, supporting
sentence, concluding sentence. But for narrative writing or other genres have specific
step.
Step To Narrative Writing:
1.
Show
up or introduction the participants and informing the time and the place. It also
introduce some characters involved in this genre. It’s mean that orientation
Example : Once,
three fishes lived in a pond. One evening, some fishermen passed by the pond
and saw the fishes. 'This pond is full of fish', they told each other
excitedly. 'We have never fished here before. We must come back tomorrow
morning with our nets and catch these fish!' Then the fishermen left.
2.
Describing
the rising crises which the participants have to do with or among participants
relationship in a process of social interaction. It’s mean that complication
Example : When
the eldest of the three fishes heard this, he was troubled. He called the other
fishes together and said, 'Did you hear what the fishermen said? We must leave
this pond at once. The fishermen will return tomorrow and kill us all!' The
second of the three fishes agreed. 'You are right', he said. 'We must leave the
pond.' But the youngest fish laughed.
'You are worrying without reason', he said. 'We have lived in this pond all our
lives, and no fisherman has ever come here. Why should these men return? I am
not going anywhere - my luck will keep me safe.'
3.
Showing
the way of participants to solve the crises, better or worse. The end can be
open ended or close ended. It’s mean
that resolution
Example : The
eldest of the fishes left the pond that very evening with his entire family.
The second fish saw the fishermen coming in the distance early next morning and
left the pond at once with all his family. The third fish refused to leave even
then. The eldest of the fishes left the pond that very evening with his entire
family. The second fish saw the fishermen coming in the distance early next
morning and left the pond at once with all his family. The third fish refused
to leave even then. The fishermen arrived and caught all the fish left in the
pond. The third fish's luck did not help him - he too was caught and killed. The
fish who saw trouble ahead and acted before it arrived as well as the fish who
acted as soon as it came both survived. But the fish who relied only on luck
and did nothing at all died. So also in life.
4.
coda ( if there is coda or moral massage
in the text )
BAD DESTINY
Thousand years ago, there lived an
ugly man in a bank of river. He lived alone after his wife left him about 3
years. In his daily life, he just stayed at home everyday. He was shy because
of his ugly face. Topic sentence
Why I said that’s topic sentence because, as we know that topic
sentence the first sentence in a paragraph and it to introduction the main idea
of the paragraph.
Thousand years ago, there lived an ugly man in
a bank of river. He lived alone after his wife left him about 3 years. It’s I
call topic sentence because that sentence already include in requirement of the
topic sentence and also already introduction of the main idea that in the next
sentence or paragraph , the autor want to tell it.
Someday,
under neat a bright sun. he was in a trip to come home from juggle near his
house. He went out to found some juggle fruit and vegetables to be cooked. at
that time he felt so exhausted, so he sat under a big three. As he taken a rest
and in a deep sleep, he was dreaming a miracle.
In
his dream, a giant came to him and said that he is a ginny. “ I a ginny of this village I know what makes
yoy never went out from your house ! “ the ginny said. “ Really ?? so would you
like to help me ? he was in a missery. “
Well, I’ll obey all of your wants ! “ the ginny replaid. “ I wanted my face to be handsome about ten
times of my face, can you o it ?” he really hoped. “ It’s easy for me ! ” But
you must climbed the mountain on the east first. “ Not long after words, the man
was up. He felt confused but sure of this dream. He followed what the ginny
said.
Next
early morning. He went to climb the mountain. He take more than ten hours.
Finally, he arrived at top of it. He felt satisfied but he really confused of
what will happen. Three minutes later, the same ginny appeared and make him so
surprised. The ginny said, “ You was successes. “ I’ll make your will be real “
but the rule is that your X-wife will get double of about you got.
“ I don’t care, make me handsome now !” “Ok,
kueek..kueekk..prepet..prepet..huhh..huhh.. ding… !
The became handsome. He laughed
loudly. Then, he thought that his X-wife will be more beautiful. Then, he said
“ Ginny……. Till I’m in a half of died to make my X-wife get double to die.” The
ginny laughed and laughed. Ten minutes later, there was only the man with the
broken leg and body.
NB : The blue color explain why the
bold paragraph said that topic sentence.
