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DEVELOPING A NARRATIVE ESSAY

 

There are some strategies that can help writing a narrative essay:

Choosing a topic. The best strategy in choosing a topic for a narrative essay is “the smaller is better”. If you choose something small to describe, it is easier to keep your readers’ interest. You can’t describe in one essay the all events that happened during this summer, but you can describe one or some really interesting moments that made the summer memorable to you. At the same time, a writer must be careful not to choose the topic that is too small. There should be enough action for five paragraphs of an essay.

 

Brainstorming. You may also use “a journalist’s strategy” – ask the questions about the topic: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Answering these questions you will clarify what you would like to write about.

 

Clustering. Make a visual map of your essay. Clustering helps to organize and develop the ideas generated in brainstorming. While clustering the ideas you can see the relations between them and produce new thoughts. Here is an example of clustering the example essay:

 

Organizing your ideas. When you start organizing your ideas, it is not necessary to tell every detail of the story. Sketch an essay and include most important actions or events of the story:

· Introduction: theme, setting and characters. What is the basic idea of the story? Where is the story taking place? When is the story taking place? Who are the main characters of the story?

· Body: mood and plot. What feeling or atmosphere do you want to create in the story? What will happen in the plot?

· Conclusion: finish the action, moral or prediction/revelation. What will happen last in your story? How will you finish the plot? Will your essay have a moral or make a prediction or revelation?

Making an outline helps you develop a more detailed plan for the narrative essay. An outline much resembles the skeleton that was used for developing a paragraph. Include your ideas into the outline.

 

NARRATIVE ESSAY OUTLINE

Topic

I. Introduction (paragraph 1):

1. General statements.

2. Thesis statement.

II. Body:

1. Paragraph 2 (event 1) topic sentence

· Support

· Support

· Transition sentence

2. Paragraph 3 (event 2) topic sentence

· Support

· Support

· Transition sentence

3. Paragraph 4 (event 3) topic sentence

· Support

· Support

· Transition sentence

III. Conclusion (paragraph 5):

· Conclusion (close of action)

· Final sentence (prediction or revelation)

 

Peer editing. It is never enough writing your essay once. A good essay usually requires more than one draft. Think of the first draft of your essay as your first attempt. Before you rewrite, it is helpful to let someone read your paper and offer comments. In class, peer editing is the easiest way to get comments on your essay. Peer editing is used both for outlines and for essay drafts. Use Peer Editing Sheet #1 for outlines (Appendix 3) and Peer Editing Sheet #2 for essay drafts (Appendix 4).




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