Makes a Good Narration

To write a good narration you have to considered several points :

• Think of an experience or event in your life in which you felt a certain emotion strongly. Then spend at leats ten minutes freewriting about the experience. Do not worry at this point about such matters as spelling or grammar or putting things in the right order; instead just try to get down as many details as you can think of that seem related to the experience.

• This preliminary writing help you decide wheter your topic is promising enough to continue work on. If it is not choose another emotion.If it is, do two things ; 1. write out your thesis in a single sentence, underlining the emotion you will focus on, 2. make up a list of all the details involved in the experience. Then arrange those details in chronological order.

• Using the list guide, prepare a rough draft oy your paper. Use time signals such as first, then, next, after, while, during and finally to help connect details as you move from the beginning to the middle to the end of your narrative.

• See if you can divide your story into separate stages (what happened first, what happened next and what finally happened). Put each stage into a separate paragraph . In narratives, it is sometimes difficult to write a topic sentence for each supporting paragraph. You may then want to start new paragraphs at points where natural shifs or logical breaks in the story seem to occur.

• One good way to recreate an event is to include some dialog. Repeating what yoy have said or what you have heard someone else says helps make the situation come alive. In general try to provide as many vivid, exact details as you can to help your readers experience the event as it actually happened.

• As you work on the drafts make sure that your narrative provides the accurate unity, support and coherence.