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Embark on a comprehensive journey through narrative writing with this Cambridge IGCSE Writing Guide. This resource offers a scaffolded approach, expertly designed to guide students in mastering the curriculum requirements. Aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy and Common Core Standards for Writing, it encompasses a variety of objectives and success criteria across cognitive domains, ensuring a well-rounded development of writing skills.

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This guide aims to achieve various objectives, fostering a deep understanding of narrative writing. Students will recall and identify key elements, demonstrate comprehension of narrative principles, apply skills in creating cohesive stories, analyse narratives for effectiveness, assess writing quality, and ultimately generate original and impactful narrative pieces.

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To facilitate the learning process, this resource provides essential scaffolders. These include a writing prompt focusing on story content, a planning frame emphasising story structure, and a plot diagram highlighting narrative plot development.

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• Includes all of the major events of the story.
• Uses details to bring the story to life
• Presents the events in a clear order, usually according to when it happened.
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• Briefly summarize the incident (write several sentences telling what happened in your own words)
• Do all of these sentences support your point of view?
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Narrative Essay. Lecture 10. Recap. How to Write a Critical Essay? Steps for Writing an Critical Essay Some Critical Styles Key Points to Consider Dos and Don’ts Common Mistakes Example. Narrative Essay . The narrative essay tells a story. It can also be called a "short story."

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Narrative Essay Lecture 10

Recap • How to Write a Critical Essay? • Steps for Writing an Critical Essay • Some Critical Styles • Key Points to Consider • Dos and Don’ts • Common Mistakes • Example

Narrative Essay The narrative essay tells a story. It can also be called a "short story." • Conversational in style • Tells of a personal experience Examples: A narrative essay could tell of ... * my brother's and my fishing trips; * a boring trip to the grocery store; * my near-death experience at the beach.

The Narrative Essay: • is told from a particular point of view • makes and supports a point • is filled with precise detail • uses vivid verbs and modifiers • uses conflict and sequence as does any story • may use dialogue

Well Written Narrative Essay • A well-written critical essay is one where the writer has made a clear argument in flawless language. • Logic • sound reasoning, and • an investigative attitude are always seen by examiners as good foundations for a well-organized discussion about a set text.

How to Write a Narrative Essay? • A narrative essay is type of essay writing that is built around a narration of a certain event or situation. • Basically, a narrative essay is a concise form of a narrative novel. • Its main objective is to tell a story, so that it is both engaging and interesting for the reader.

How to Write a Narrative Essay? • A narrative essay, more than any other type of essay, allows you to be creative as a writer. Nevertheless, there are certain rules to follow and mistakes to avoid when writing a narrative essay.

Steps for Writing a Narrative Essay Step # 1: Decide on a plot. You should never start writing your narrative essay before you come up with the plot for it. Step # 2: Do a sketch of events you plan to depict in chronological order.

Steps for Writing a Narrative Essay Step # 3: When starting on your introduction, begin by setting the scenefor the situation you will narrate about. Here, it is best to go into details and make the imagery as vivid and colorful as possible, so that the readers will be able to clearly picture the setting in their mind.

Steps for Writing a Narrative Essay Step # 4: As you go into the main body paragraphs, narrate the story. Try to develop the plot gradually, starting from smaller events or incidents that lead to the main scene.

Steps for Writing a Narrative Essay Step # 5: Write the main body paragraphs in accordance with the structure you chose when making an outline – Step # 6: Narrate the main scene of your story. Use as many details and emotional descriptions as you can to portray the story in full. Draw the reader into the events by evoking feelings and describing reactions of the characters of your story.

Steps for Writing a Narrative Essay Step # 7: End your story. Here you can appeal to the senses, moods and feelings of your characters, describing the consequences of the narrated events. Step # 8: Lay your work aside for some time and then do a thorough proofreading.

Topic Selection • There are endless topic variations you can choose from for your story. • With narrative being a very creative type of writing, you have a unique opportunity to choose the ideal topic to narrate about. • It should be something that you yourself find interesting, otherwise it will be hard to make it interesting for your readers.

Topic Selection • Your story can be true or fiction. • It can be narrated in the first or the third person. • Your narrative essay can be based on your own experience, be completely imaginary, or describe the experience of somebody you know. • It can be realistic or completely made up. • only basic requirement for a good narrative essay topic is that it should sound interesting to appeal to the reader, starting from the very first words.

Topic Selection Below are several examples of good topics for narrative essay. However, keep in mind that the ideas to choose a good topic from are limitless: • A mysterious book • One sleepless night • Our trip to the mountains • An unexpected occasion • Visiting the Castle of Dracula • A summer to remember • The most exciting moment of my life • Lost in the forest • A trip to never forget • One lazy summer afternoon… • An unexpected visitor • A letter from the future

Key Points to Consider • Genre of your writing: Start your essay by deciding upon the genre of your writing. Only after you make up your mind about how realistic your story should be (depending on whether you want, for instance, to write a fantastic science fiction essay, or a realistic life chronicle), you can move on to develop the actual plot.

Key Points to Consider • If you find it hard to start your essay, or cannot seem to come up with the story you will convey, try to approach the process of writing with a “Question-and-answer method”. • Start asking yourself basic questions about the future story • slowly move on to more detailed specific questions as you develop the plot For example: • start with “Where did the event happen?” “Who was involved in the situation?” “What were the consequences of this event?” “What were the reactions of people involved?”

Key Points to Consider • With a narrative essay being a rather informal type of essay writing, one thing you should keep in mind is that even though you are telling a story to your readers, you are not exactly doing it the way you would say it in person. • When a narrative essay is too conversational and simplistic, it can hardly be considered a successful one. • You need to find a balance between telling a story in an interesting informal manner while keeping your writing stylistically beautiful.

Key Points to Consider • To experiment with your writing style and make your narrative essay more unique, you can use a literary technique called ‘flashback narration’. • You can start your story from a particular point in time (usually something extraordinary and exciting), and then move back to the events that lead to the described situation.

Key Points to Consider • Try to express yourself more creatively and figuratively. • Like, instead of just saying “a very old man slowly entered the room”, you could say “a grey-haired man with a thick beard opened the door, his hands slightly trembling from age, and heavily stepped inside”.

Key Points to Consider • With the narrative essay giving you certain freedom to experiment with words, you can use interesting and unusual word combinations to make your writing more creative. • A good example would be using action verbs with inanimate objects, or ascribing animals, plants or natural phenomena certain human qualities.

Dos • Do use dialogues to make your writing more vivid and life-like. • Do use author’s lines in between the replicates your characters to add action and help create a fuller picture of your characters’ personalities, reactions and behaviors.

Dos • Do give information in chronological order. Use time words: • “first” • “before” • “then” • “after that” • “later” • “during” • “while” etc to help link the events. • Do use senses and emotions to set the scene for your story.

Dos • Do enhance your writing with colorful stylistic literary techniques, like: • Metaphors • Epithets • Distinguished comparisons • Bright Allegories and the like.

Dos • Do include detailed descriptions of the places, people and buildings that are part of the story. You should try to make it easier for your readers to picture everything you describe in their mind.

Don'ts • Don’t be afraid to be creative – sometimes a story that sounds unrealistic is nevertheless benefitting from all the imaginary happenings. • As long as you do not lose yourself to the surrealism of the described events and keep your reader interested, the essay will be a success.

Don’ts • Don’t switch from past tense to present and vice versa; stick to one tense for the entire story. • Don’t start writing your narrative essay before you decide on the ending for your story. It is absolutely necessary to plan the entire story prior to developing the plot in detail.

Don’ts • Don’t change the sequence of events – this will make it much harder for the reader to follow the plot. • Don’t be afraid to include elements of descriptive writing in your narrative essay. Your work will only benefit from bright details and specific descriptions.

Common Mistakes • Switching from first person to the third as you narrate. • You should stick with just one way of narration • either that of a detached narrator, or one of the characters of your story. • Only skillful and experienced fiction writers can combine these techniques, • for example, narrate the same story from different characters’ perspectives in rotation without confusing the reader.

Common Mistakes • Slang words in Direct and Indirect speech: Using slang words is an acceptable stylistic technique when you integrate it into the words of your characters (in case it goes in line with the picture you want to create), but it is never a good idea for the indirect speech. • Author’s words need to be literary correct and neutral.

Common Mistakes • Overloading your sentences with verbs, so that you focus too much on the action and fail to construct the full picture. • Always try to combine moderate usage of verbs with bright adjectives and adverbs to balance your writing.

Example of Narrative Essay The Biggest Nightmare?

Introduction Paragraph It was a hot summer’s day. Everything around me was slowly starting to melt: the trees, the houses, the sky and the pathway to my garage. It seemed that I was about to melt down myself, so there would only be a small puddle of glue-like substance left on the ground. I was walking very slowly. My head felt huge and heavy, and every muscle in my body was sore. My arms and legs were barely responding to the signals that my brain was sending to them. It felt like a slow-motion horror movie, only it was happening live. I finally reached the front door and touched the handle. The path that took only a second for my eyes to see, took about twenty minutes for my body to accomplish. But, I was finally at my goal.

1. Supporting Details I slowly turned the handle of the door, only to realize it had barely moved. I took all the strength that I had left in my body and pressed the handle again. No success. I turned around, leaned against the door, and slowly slid down to the ground. I felt faint. My head was spinning. I was so thirsty that I could barely think about anything else. I had to get inside; had to pull myself together and open the door. Otherwise, I would faint here, near the front entrance to my own house, which was not the scenario I’d prefer. I pulled myself from the ground and faced the door again. I closed my eyes for a second, took a deep breath, opened them, and pushed the door knob as hard as I could, at the time. It gave way reluctantly. If it wasn’t for the helpless shadow of a man that I was at that moment, I would definitely have screamed in happiness for finally winning, over this stubborn door knob. But, all I could settle for right then was a weak smile, and a deep sigh of relief.

2. Supporting Details • I went inside, and had to wait for a minute before I could make out anything. It was too dark, still very hot and, somehow, very lonely inside. By the time my eyes adapted to the darkness inside, I could tell no one was around. What time was it? And where was everyone? The house was completely and scarily quiet. The silence was unnatural. There was no sound coming from the working fridge, or ticking clock; nothing. I went to the kitchen to get some water, opened the tap and put an empty glass under it. But there was no water, not even a drop! The glass remained empty. This seemed like a complete nightmare. I must be dreaming! I felt like the world had died out, everything had stopped and, somehow, I was forgotten here all alone, left to die from thirst and heat.

3. Supporting Details I was having a panic attack. With the anger and strength that came out of nowhere, I ran from one room to another, looking for anyone. Mom, Josh, dad, Charlie – no one was to be seen. The dogs were gone too. What is wrong with the place? Again, for the third or fourth time, I caught myself thinking this was just a bad dream. But, my body still felt very much sore, and I could vividly feel the pain. Having no clue of what else, except the pain, could help me distinguish between dreaming and reality, I had to accept the fact that I was living this nightmare for real. Suddenly, I heard a sound coming from downstairs. It was a very slight, faint sound that repeated in a second, only louder. I ran downstairs, feeling a little scared, and, at the same time, hoping that it was someone, or something, that could explain to me what was going on.

4. Supporting Details The living room was empty. The sound was coming from outside the back porch, and it was increasing in loudness with every new cycle. It reminded me of when dad and I went rowing, and every time dad turned over the oars, they made the same whistling sound, cleaving the air. I ran outside the back door, and was almost brought down to the ground by the strength of the wind. It was a helicopter, right above me, coming onto me. I lay on the ground, screaming, but I couldn’t hear my own voice through the noise of the implacable vanes getting closer, and freezing me to the ground…

Conclusion … “Jason, honey, wake up! It’s just a dream, babe. You look so pale. Are you okay?” My mom was standing next to my bed, trying to calm me down, as I was still screaming and flapping my arms. The air was on, and the fan above my bed was making that particular whistling sound with each turn.

Summary • How to Write a Narrative Essay? • Well Written Narrative Essay • Steps for Writing a Narrative Essay • Topic Selection • Dos and Don’ts • Common Mistakes • Example

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