1. Hery The
WizIQ Online Class
January 18, 2012
Welcome to English 3.0 Series, Spring 2012
Introducing to
writing Forms

2. #1 #2 #3 #4
Narration Description Exposition Argumentation
Road Map (2nd Meeting)

3. Forms of writing
NARRATION: to tell or
relate
DESCRIPTION: to define,
report, illustrate
EXPOSITION: to explain or
interpret
ARGUMENTATION: to
persuade or argue

4. Example #1: Narration
Christmas Cookies (http://examples.yourdictionary.com/narrative-essay-examples.html )
―Although I have grown up to be entirely inept at the art of cooking, as to
make even the most wretched chef ridicule my sad baking attempts, my
childhood would have indicated otherwise; I was always on the countertop
next to my mother’s cooking bowl, adding and mixing ingredients that would
doubtlessly create a delicious food. When I was younger, cooking came
intrinsically with the holiday season, which made that time of year the prime
occasion for me to unite with ounces and ounces of satin dark chocolate,
various other messy and gooey ingredients, numerous cooking utensils, and
the assistance of my mother to cook what would soon be an edible
masterpiece. The most memorable of the holiday works of art were our
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies, which my mother and I first made when I was
about six and are now made annually.‖

5. Elements of a narration
Acts or events
Natural time sequence
Short stories, novels, letters, conversations
Enjoyment
Introducing – Increasing actions- Climax – Outcomes
More examples:
http://thewritesource.com/studentmodels/
http://www.infoplease.com/homework/writingskills4a.ht
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6. Example #2: Description
Carnival Rides (http://www.infoplease.com/homework/writingskills5a.html)
…
My first experience with a carnival ride was a Ferris wheel at a local fair.
Looking at that looming monstrosity spinning the life out of its sardine-caged
occupants, I was dumbstruck. It was huge, smoky, noisy and not a little
intimidating. Ever since that initial impression became fossilized in my
imagination many years ago, these rides have reminded me of mythical
beasts, amazing dinosaurs carrying off their screaming passengers like
sacrificial virgins. Even the droning sound of their engines brings to mind the
great roar of a fire-breathing dragon with smoke spewing from its exhaust-
pipe nostrils.
…

7. Elements of a description
Sensation
Emotions & Moods
Visualized people, time, places
Visualized inside of heads (character, personality,
taught, etc.)
More examples:
http://www.elc.byu.edu/classes/buck/w_garden/st
udents/students_descr_place.html
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/comp
osition/narrative.htm

8. Example #3: Exposition
The Myth (http://www.apstudynotes.org/english/sample-essays/definition-success/ )
Do you know someone rich and famous? Is he confident, popular, and joyful all of
the time—the epitome of mainstream success? Or, on the other hand, is he
stressed, having second thoughts about his life choices, and unsure about the
meaning of his life? I am willing to be that it is the second one. Mainstream
marketing and media have effectively brainwashed our society into accepting a
false, even potentially dangerous definition of success. Marketers want us to believe
that having lots of money, living in a big house, and owning all of the latest cars,
fashions, and technology is the key to happiness, and hence, success. This
overstated, falsely advertised myth is hardly ever the case in real life. True success
requires respect, appreciation, integrity, and patience—all of which are traits that by
human nature are genuinely difficult to attain—especially in the face of modern
marketers who relentlessly deceive us, control our thoughts, and usurp our
independence in order to increase their bottom line.

9. Elements of an exposition
Information, explanation, meaning making
Editorial, essay, instructional materials
Usually NOT Stand Alone
Types: process – definition – analysis – criticism
More examples:
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-
exposition.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/10888/expos.html

10. Example #4: Argumentation
Should high school athletes be given drug test?
(http://people.oregonstate.edu/~petersp/ORST/WR121_files/argument.htm#Sample Essays)
There is evidence that shows that students who are involved in athletics are no
more likely to use drugs than any other people in the student body. (Bailey, William)
There should be a reason for the schools to single out athletes from the other
students for drug testing. The only appropriate reasons for treating athletes
differently by giving them drug tests would be if they more likely to use drugs than
other students, they were at greater risk of using drugs, the use of drugs being
riskier to them, or that the tests will be more likely to come back positive for
athletes. It is true in some schools across the United States, that athletes are more
likely to consume alcohol at a weekend party, but if a urine sample were taken the
following week, it would come back clean. So this testing would only be a waste of
time and money. Student athletes more than likely know that there are way to beat
a drug test so they won’t hesitate to drink anyways.

11. Elements of an argumentation
Opinion – Stand point
Persuade, Convince
Inviting debate (pro and cons)
More examples:
http://people.oregonstate.edu/~petersp/O
RST/WR121_files/argument.htm#Sample
Essays

12. Individual practice
Write a description of a place (a football stadium, garden,
classroom, library, bridge, well-known street corner,
country road, superhighway) or a point in time (the hour
before dawn, noon in the summer, one of the seasons, a
holiday, twilight, a moonlit night, sunset, a rainy day, a
snowy afternoon).
*) Taken from Wishon & Burks (1980), Let’s Write English

13. Conclusion
Usually: combination of
writing forms
Possible to be used alone
Practice and feedback

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