Upholding The Essay Through Narration Writing Skill

  The primary purpose of chapter 12, narration, is offering detailed know-how of utilizing such skill to support and concretize the ideas induced in the essay. To meet the goal of avoiding essay from a void but an effective one, readers could get access to six elements of narration and obtain clearer understanding of narration, thereby constructing and using convincing stories in the article. 

Figure 1.1 Six Elements

  Hence, the strengths of this chapter mostly could be contributed to those transparent writing steps to effectiveness; as the figure 1.1 has shown above, each element, though seems not illustrate remarkable writing skills with flowery rhetoric wording, still manifests the nuts and bolts of how a writer being wisely able to quote appropriate length and angle of certain story to grab readers’ attention, making them vividly feel as if living at the scene and being persuaded by writer’s perspective. From initially knowing the purpose to the lastly using dialogue realistically, to me, I especially get habituated to this logical writing arrangement that allows me to easily grasp the essence of proper thinking logic in narration and common writing blunders that should be aware of.

Figure 1.2 Narration Process

  Apart from the six elements, the chapter even draws a sequence (Figure 1.2) to divide narration process into three parts in case that people immaturely misuse the narration skill to court even worse counter effects in essay. Significantly, keeping sufficient comprehension in stories used to sustain in the writing has been a bedrock: while recounting the event, no matter it’s hypothetic or realistic borrowed story material, writers have to be equipped with enough familiarity and control in it so as to secure readers’ firm trust and motivation to keep on reading the piece of writing work; otherwise, the work would just be discarded soon since none of the words and ideas in story strikes a chord with readers. Once without supporting narrative phrases, the essay would probably become nothing but made-up fantasy, which is what this chapter tries to warn the novices.

  In the last few pages is attached with a student sample of narration; however, it would be more perfect if other successful and failing examples of using narrations were suggested in this book, further revealing the sharp contrast between convincing narrative essay and vaunting one as references for individuals’ tryout in narration.

  Consequently, on the whole, the chapter 12 is rather clear and serviceable to demonstrate passable use and effects during narrative writing. For more thorough introduction, it could also attempt to supplement diverse organized process graphic and exhibition of narration samples to expand the completeness