Task of Fifth Meeting

Description of narrative writing

What is Narrative?

The word narrative is synonymous with story.  A narrative is the story (fiction or non-fiction) told and the order in which it is told. It is focusing some specific participants that have several structural features making different from other genres.  Sometimes, there is a narrator, a character or series of characters, who tell the story. Sometimes, as with most non-fiction,  the author himself or herself in the narrator.

 

Why Write Narrative?

Narrative writing is very important in your day-to-day life.  For the rest of your life, you will write texts, e-mails, cover letters, blogs, etc. about  your beliefs,  your ambitions, information you know, and feelings you have.  What could be more important?

Narrative writing in fiction and non-fiction (and even poetry) tells others the stories of our personal experiences and allows us to gain empathy and sympathy about the world around us. 

When you make narrative  there are three requirement to write a good narration. Firstly, the first sentences should arise interest, secondly, the story should be told in a step by step other, thirdly, the story should be built to a climax. In another hand you can pay attention with the language features of narrative text. Its include of using processes verb, using temporal conjunction, using simple past tense but it can be present tense, future tense etc. After you able to comprehense it. It’s make it easy to make narrative writting.

How to differ from other writing genres

Narrative have several features making different from other genres. Narrative  differs from other types of non fiction and fiction in purpose and features.

Purpose

The primary purpose of informational text is to convey information about the natural or social world, typically from someone presumed to know that information to someone presumed not to, with particular linguistic features such as headings and technical vocabulary to help accomplish that purpose. By our definition, therefore, biography is nonfiction but is not informational text, because its primary purpose is to convey information about an individual’s life. Procedural or how-to text is also nonfiction, but not informational text because its primary purpose is to tell someone how to do something, not convey information about some thing. Nonfiction narrative or “true stories” are also nonfiction but not informational text, because their primary purpose is to tell of an event or series of events that have occurred. This is not to say that biography, procedural text, nonfiction narrative, and other types of nonfiction are not important; they are just not the same as informational text.

Features

It is important to talk about the different types or genres of nonfiction narrative not only because they have different purposes, but because they have different features to achieve those purposes. Narrative have  For example, biographies typically focus on a single individual and specific points in time. In contrast, informational texts, as we define them, talk about whole classes of things and in a timeless way (for example, “Sharks live in water.”), they therefore have a generalizing quality. Other common features of informational texts include presentation and repetition of a topic or theme, descriptions of attributes and characteristic events, comparative or contrastive and classifactory structures, technical vocabulary, realistic illustrations or photographs.

The steps how to make a narrative writing

Step 1

Determine an idea or topic

(It is consist of an idea that the writer experience that happened  in the past)

Example : An accident

Step 2

Determine the topic sentence
(Introducing the key information will be in the narrative paragraph)

Example : An unforgettable experience in my life was  an accident.

                                         A Controlling idea                             A Topic 

Step 3

Write and develop supporting sentences.

(Describing  the introduction, characters, setting, plot, climax)

Example :

Topic sentence :        An unforgettable experience in my life was  an accident.

Supporting sentence 1 : When I was at elementary school, I and my mother got an accident.

Supporting sentence 2 : Suddenly, My motorcycle collisioned by other motorcycle from the back side.

Supporting sentence 3 : I and my mother got wound in the right arm.

Supporting sentence 4 : I and my mother helped by the people arround there.

Step 4

Write a concluding sentence

(it is consist of conclusion)

Example :

Type concluding sentence : logical

Concluding sentence : I and my mother got an accident it can caused by careless.

 Narrative Paragraph

           

Being An Assistant of Laboratory

An unforgettable experience in my education background was being an assistant laboratory. Last two month ago, I had a good chance.That chance was selection of assistant laboratory at muhammadiyah university of metro. My friends were interested to follow it.

            After final examination of the third semester, I listed assistant laboratory. At first, to list it. I collected the file that used to listed it. Afterwards I submitted it to Miss Widi as staff in the laboratory. Then she selected all of file that have been submitted to selection interview test and microteaching test. While I waited the announcement from her, I prepared to follow interview test and studied about the components of english skill and grammar. One week later, I got announcement from the staff that I passed the selection to follow interview test and microteaching test. There were eight students that passed the selection.  

A day after it,  at 8 o’clock, I and my friends come to the language laboratory for following interview test. While I waited my turn, I prepared it. Suddenly I felt very nervous. One hour later, I followed interview test. Then I entered the head’s laboratory room nervously. I tried to control that feeling in order to I can do it well. Unfortunately, I can’t controlled it but I always tried it. For 20 minutes, I given ten questions to answer clearly by interviewer. Next day, I followed microteaching test. I felt confuse about this test because I never do it before. When the test was running, I got difficult how to handle the class because the students of the class were very noisy. After finished it, I waited the announcement. I felt very worry  with the announcement because I didn’t want my parents was disappointed of me. I always pray to God. Hopefully, he can blessing my prayer. 

 At last, when interview was running I tried to calm down to answer the question. My nervous was decrease and I can answered the questions with clearly. Then, when the microteaching test was running I  tried to explain the material although most of the sudents still noisy. On february 24^th 2014, announcement have been announced by staff laboratory that I passed the test and being an assistant of laboratory. I thankfully to God because of his blessing I being an assistant laboratory. 

I felt very happy and lucky for my chance. However, my great achievement as an experience that will ever forget in my education background and make my parents proud of me.

 

No	Topic Sentences	The reason of sentences is called as the topic sentence
1	An unforgettable experience in my education background was being an assistant laboratory.	The sentence called as topic sentence because it contains both a topic and a controlling idea. Controlling idea : An Unforgettable experience in my education background Topic : was being an assistant laboratory
2	After final examination of the third semester, I listed assistant laboratory.	The sentence called as topic sentences because it is generally in paragraph. Controlling idea : after final examination of the third semester Topic : I listed assistant laboratory.
3	A day after it,  at 8 o’clock, I and my friends come to the language laboratory for following interview test.	The sentence called as topic sentence because it has a complete sentence. Controlling idea : A day after it,  at 8 o’clock, I and my friends come to the language laboratory Topic : for following interview test
4	My nervous was decrease and I can answered the questions with clearly.	The sentence called as topic sentence because it is generally in paragraph. Controlling idea : My nervous was decrease Topic : I can answered the questions with clearly.
5	I felt very happy and lucky for my chance.	The sentence called as topic sentence because it has complete sentence. Controlling idea : I felt very happy Topic : lucky for my chance.