What's your story?

Today, we spent the majority of our time considering NARRATION.  Narration is a mode of development that allows writers to use stories in order to make their points.  There are a few important pieces to a really good narrative:

• PLOT (the actual story...what happens and stuff)
• CHARACTERS (who is involved...we want this part to be especially full of details and description)
• SETTING (where and when something goes down)

The other thing to think about is organization.  You mostly want to keep things in chronological order to help your readers figure out the time with little effort.  You can use transitions to help.

We also started working on sentence structure.  There are three pieces of information in ALL sentences:

• the SUBJECT (who or what the sentence is about)
• the VERB (shows action or condition/quality of being)
• a COMPLETE THOUGHT (just because that helps the reader)

Practice looking for the subject and verb in EG 374 practice #1 (PS-brownie points if you can figure out the pattern between subjects and verbs).