WRITING 3 TASK 5

Nama         : Wulan Susanti

NPM : 12340033

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.

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.”

Genre	Purpose	Activities
Descriptive Writing	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.	Character sketches Comparisons Descriptive essays Descriptive sentences Found poems
Expository Writing	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.	Alphabet books Autobiographies Directions Essays Posters Reports Summaries
Journals and Letters	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.	Business letters Courtesy letters Double-entry journals E-mail messages Friendly letters Learning logs Personal journals
Narrative Writing	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.	Original short stories Personal narratives Retellings of stories Sequels to stories Story scripts
Persuasive Writing	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.	Advertisements Book and movie reviews Letters to the editor Persuasive essays Persuasive letters
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.	Acrostic poems Color poems Free verse Haiku “I Am” poems Poems for two voices

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.