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| Title: | Narrative Essay |
| Author: | Jessica Johnson |
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Narration is a message that discloses the peculiarities of an
act, event or phenomenon. A narrative essay should tell a story,
reflecting the writer's personal attitude towards the described
event. A narrative essay may discuss the events or memorable
personalities of the past, or even observe the current events.
Narrative essays do not require any particular technique or
approach as they most frequently tell someone's story, and thus
it is quite logical to utilize the first person narration in
such type of an essay. The writer should demonstrate a relaxed
writing style as if he were telling his story to a friend in a
natural atmosphere. The subject of a narrative essay may include
any topic that the writer feels interest in, beginning from his
favorite sports or activities and ending with prominent
personalities or significant decisive events of the human
history. It is ultimately important for the writer to solidify
the entire essay and get to some logical conclusion.
An introduction of the narrative essay should give a clear
insight into the story that is going to be presented. An
introductory paragraph should also identify the general style
that a writer is going to follow (narration, observation,
description of the personal experience or any other style). The
writer should choose the angle from which he is going to
describe an event, personality, or scene, and ensure that his
description is original, creative, and thrilling. Deliberate
utilization of dialogs and indirect speech is acceptable, and
may vivify the story in some cases. Utilization of the personals
intimates and personalizes the discussion. The writer should
build his narrative essay so that the reader's emotions are
involved and some general resume is made. This objective may be
reached through the utilization of some new styles and avoidance
of the trite expressions and phrases. Proper word choice is as
crucial as for any other type of essays.
Writing a narrative essay, the writer should remember that
writing at length is pointless: the main thing is not the volume
but the content and ability to use language and different
techniques. Brief and well-structured story is always better
that boring and incoherent rambling. Planning is very important
for this kind of essay, as well as for any other kind. It
becomes especially vital as in narrative essays, plot and style
should be limited to whatever text length is required (it does
it mean "brevity", however, "economy" of words is necessary -
every word should count). If a volume of an essay in not very
big, insufficient details, too many characters of quick shifts
of scenes may become a drawback rather than an advantage. The
chain of events is very important to consider in the process of
planning. In case there are any dialogues in the story, they
should be kept as brief as possible. There have been few masters
of dialogue in the world literature, and unless the writer is
completely confident in his powers, it is better to reduce
dialogues to the minimum as they usually slow down the action.
About the author:
Jessica Johnson is Sales Manager of Custom Essay
(http://www.customessay.org) - custom writing service based in
Etobicoke, Canada. Permission is granted to re-publish this
article provided that it is published in its entirety without
exclusion including the hyperlink to Custom Essay in the
following format: Custom Essay -
Writing Services
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