2. Mini-discussion
Why do we tell stories?
What makes a story great?
http://3oneseven.com/29/singin-in-the-rain/
3. Stories are important
cognitive events, for they
encapsulate
information, knowledge,
context, and emotion.
--Don Norman, Things That Make Us Smart
danorbit.
8. TheRENNS Model
Reasons
Examples
Names
Numbers
Senses
Why did something happen? Why did someone do
something?
How did it happen? How did someone do something?
Who was involved? Where did it happen?
When did it happen? How many were involved?
hearing
(auditory)
sight
(visual)
smell
(olfactory)
touch
(tactile)
taste
(gustatory)
11. Thomas Hawk
The restaurant was shaped like a big bottle, though squatter than a
real bottle, and on its cap was a revolving figure of a grinning
boy holding a hamburger aloft.
--Joyce Carol Oates, “Where are you Going, Where have you Been?”
13. ...I remembered clearest of all...how the bedroom smelled of
the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent
entered through the screen. --E.B. White, “Once More to the Lake”
James Jordan
17. ...there came to my ears a low,
dull, quick sound, such as a
watch makes when enveloped
in cotton.... It was the beating
of the old man's heart.
--Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell Tale Heart”
alvaro tapia hidalgo
21. The A
n
ecdo
t
e
like
ntly
here that
s] in .and
t it' n..
[tha atio
form estin
lass
h its s a d " --Ira G
roug t ha
g...
l th tha
n
fee in
ethi
can tra
som
.you on a to find
..
ing going
be re
ou'
y
96dpi
