1. The Bedford Reader Chapter 4: Narration
The first type of essay is the narrative essay….wait, wait…there are more to come!

2. Narration: Telling a story
Turn to page 80 and read the advertisement
Now let’s read the blue box

3. The method
The aim of a narrative essay is to describe a course of events from a subjective vantage point, and may be written in first-person present or first person past tense.

4. Narration is
…a powerful method to engage and hold the attention of listener
A Narrative You Say

5. Academic writing
In academic writing (like for school) you will mainly use
Brief narratives or ANECDOTES that recount single incidents as a way of supporting an explanation or an ARUGMENT with the flesh and blood of real life
An example: pages 82 last paragraph

6. The process Every good story has a purpose
If you have no purpose you will annoy your reader (think about a little kid who goes on and on and on and on about nothing)
kid telling story

7. The thesis
You begin with the main idea…no hook, no funny or interesting beginning…just where you are going to go. Your thesis!

8. The Thesis You need a memorable conclusion after your great story.
See me

9. The narrator of the story
The narrator is the speaker, the one who was there.
The narrator uses details and feelings.
But it can be in any point of view…I, me, she/he, they

10. Most history books..
…and news stories are third person narratives. Writers stick to the facts and do not invent the thoughts of participants.
They stick to the facts.

11. What to emphasize Tell the who, what, when, why and how
Let’s read p. 87 second paragraph.

12. Organization
The simplest approach is chronological…in order that things happened.
Let’s look at page 87 at the bottom.

13. verbs Narration really depends upon the verbs to make it alive.
Let’s share some verbs!

14. Narration in paragraphs
Writing about television

15. Writing in the academic discipline

16. Narration in practice

17. Turn to page 114 Read “The Market for a Yale Woman’s Eggs”
Answer all the questions that follow