The Effective Process Of Narrative

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John is a student at a university and has to write an essay. He gets a topic from his professor and plans to get ahead, about two hours later he has a few sentences that he has written seven times over. His head hurts and he is discouraged because his essay is not coming together. Often times students have ideas of what they want to say, but do not know how to write them down. John needs to forget that he is writing an essay for English class and simply put his ideas and thoughts on paper for all to see. An essay becomes easier to write when the main goal is to accomplish the purpose with a target audience in mind, instead of when the focus is on the length of the content. Learning different ways to organize your essay’s content helps the reader follow and understand what you are saying. It also helps you revise your paper, see what you have written and what you need more information about. A writing process that you can follow for any essay is great for students that have struggled …show more content…

I will now cover the following rhetorical tools: narratives, visuals, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and classification and division. Getting an audience 's attention can be difficult. Stories are an effective way to grab an audience 's attention because they are easy for people to relate to. Narratives are stories that have a beginning, a middle, and an end. The key part of a narrative is the characters’. The plot and theme of a story, will change based upon the characters responses to the setting, problems, and interaction between other characters. Some examples of narratives could be the story of how you became passionate about what you are writing about, or a story about someone else. Also Narratives are part of a bigger argument of, why was the story told. Often found in stories are lessons that explain more about why the narrative was written for the

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