Writer's Guidelines: Descriptive Narration

Narration1. Include these parts so that you will be sure you have a complete narrative:
Situation
Conflict
Struggle
Outcome
Meaning
2. Use thechniques or devices as appropriate
Images that appeal to the senses(sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch) and other details to advance action
Dialogue
Transitional devices (such as next , soon, after , alter , then , finally, when, following) to indicate chronological order
Give details concerning action
Be consistent with point of view and verb tense
Keep in mind that most narratives written as college assignments will have an expository purpose; that is , they explain a specific idea.
Consider working with a short time frame for short writing assignments. the scope would usually be no more than one incident of brief duration for one paragraph.
Description
In objective description, use direct, practical language appealing mainly to the sense of sight.
In subjective description, appeal to the reader's feelings, especially through the use of figurative language and the use of images of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
Use concretem, specific words if appropriate.
Apply these questions to your writing:
1.What is the subject?
2.What is the dominant impression i am trying to convery?
3.What details support the dominant impression?
4.What is the situation?
5.What is the order of the details?
6.What is the point of view? (first or third person? Involved or objective?)
Consider giving the description a narrative framework. Include some action.
Souce:Brandon, Lee. Brandon, Kelly. Paragraphs and Essays with Integrated Readings, 11th Edition. Boston, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2011