Narrative Paragraph in Academic Writing
I.
Introduction
In this presentation, we’d like to discuss of the
narrative paragraph and give you some points of view. Well, actually all of us
have already been getting involved with the narrative paragraph.
What does it mean? We’ll give you a common thing that we sometimes do in our daily life and it’s actually the narrative paragraph. Have you ever lately read a fiction book and you feel entertain with it?Or have you ever read a book and you are getting deep reconciled with the main character’s emotion?Or have you ever felt squeezed with the problem or conflict of the story? Or you may even feel satisfied with the movie that you watched due to the solution the main characters of the movie got.
Or your tears keep
falling down hearing or can’t stop laughing with your friend’s story.
Definitely, we had already known the narrative paragraph and we do not realize
it, yet. So, there are some vivid points that we noted. The narrative paragraph
is a ‘thing’ that we all had already known in our daily life though, it can be
as a fiction book, the story life of friends, or the movie, itself.
II.
Theory of Content
2.1 The Definition of The Narrative Paragraph
Narrative is a writing about events in the order that they
happen.
(Oshima, Alice. Hogue, Ann.2007. Introduction to
Academic Writing Third Edition. NY: Pearson Education,Inc.).
A Narrative paragraph often describes an event from the writer’s life.
(Folse S
Keith. Muchmore-Vokoun April. Solomon VestriElena.2010.Great Paragraphs
Third Edition.Canada:HeinleCongage Learning).
In other way the narrative paragraph; tells a story, gives background information in the opening
sentence or sentences, has a clear a beginning, a middle and end entertain
and informs, uses vivid, descriptive language that paints a picture
that is so real that the reader can
almost feel that he or she is witnessing the event life.
(Folse S
Keith. Muchmore-Vokoun April. Solomon VestriElena.2010.Great Paragraphs
Third Edition.Canada: HeinleCongage Learning).
2.2
The Parts of The
Narrative Paragraph
2.2.1
The Body of The
Narrative Paragraph
The narrative paragraph has its own body for the
paragraph, there are :
a.
The topic sentence
The first sentence in the paragraph-the
topic sentence-gives background information of the story.
b. The beginning of the story
The topic sentence is the beginning of the paragraph but it is not the
beginning of the story. The main action begins after the topic sentence. They
may be about a problem or a conflict.
c.
The middle of the
story
After the beginning part of the story you’ll find the middle part of the story.
The main part is where the main action or problem occurs.
d.
The end of
the story
The end of the story gives final action or result. If there is a problem or
conflict in the story, the solution is presented here.
(Folse S Keith. Muchmore-Vokoun April. Solomon VestriElena.2010.Great
Paragraphs Third Edition.Canada:HeinleCongage Learning).
2.2.2
The Organization
Making the narrative paragraph, as we told before,
should be in chronological order, in that case, we need to use time order, it
will happen one after in another in time: what happens first, next, after that
and so on. There won't be many timelines, and you may use little or no
flashback or flash-forward.
Notice the kinds of words and phrases used to show time order. These are called
by time order signal because they signal the order in which events
happen.
(Oshima, Alice. Hogue, Ann.2007. Introduction to Academic Writing Third Edition. NY: Pearson Education,Inc.).
In chapter one, we’d already discussed of simple
sentence. In this chapter 2, we will focus to the compound sentence. What is
compound sentence?
A compound sentence is composed of at least two simple sentence joined by a comma and a coordinating
conjunction. A compound sentence has
this “formula”.
Use a comma before the coordinating
conjungtions in compound sentences only.
Compound sentence
They were happy, but they were poor.
Do not use a comma to join two or two
phrases in a simple sentence.
Simple sentence
He could choose a big box or he could
choose a small one.
2.2.4 The Punctuation
We’d already discussed the time order signal and learn
how is the rule of punctuation for time order signals. Now we’re going to
review the three rules of comma.
2.2.5
The Writing
Process
One of another technique of the writing process, besides
listing, is freewriting. It means you free to write – without
stopping-on a topic for a specific amount of time. The main goal of in
freewriting is to keep your pencil moving across a paper.
(Oshima, Alice. Hogue, Ann.2007. Introduction to Academic Writing Third
Edition. NY: Pearson Education, Inc.).
III. Conclusion
a.
These are the important points covered in this chapter :
The narrative is the kind of writing that you do when you tell a story.
b.
Use time order words and phrases to show when each part of the story
happens.
c.
A compound sentence is composed of two people sentences joined by a comma
and acoordinating conjunction.
d.
Four coordinating can junctions are and, but, so and
or.
e.
Commas
are used
·
after most time orders signals at the beginning of a sentence.
·
in a compound sentence.
·
between items in a series.
·
in dates written in the order month-day-year.
·
in place-names.
f.
Freewriting is a prewriting technique in which you write without stopping
for a specific amount of time.
(Oshima, Alice. Hogue, Ann.2007. Introduction to Academic Writing Third
Edition. NY: Pearson Education,Inc.).
References
(Oshima,
Alice. Hogue, Ann.2007. Introduction to Academic Writing Third Edition.
NY: Pearson Education,Inc.).
(Folse S Keith. Muchmore-Vokoun April. Solomon Vestri Elena.2010.Great
Paragraphs Third Edition.Canada:HeinleCongage Learning).
http://english120.pbworks.com/w/page/19006987/narrative%20paragraphs
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