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发信人: nova (晃来晃去的鱼儿), 信区: English
标 题: Common Writing Techniques in Testing(1)
发信站: 大红花的国度 (Tue Jun 27 19:52:49 2000), 转信
Narration
1.1 Narration, as a pattern of thought, consists of the act of
following a sequence of actions or events in time. It is a recounting
of the facts or particulars of some occurrence, or experience.
The simplest kind of narration is the one which follows chronological
order, i.e. which tells the events in the order in which they occurred.
1.2 The Common Structure of Narration
The rhetorical structure of narration can be partially conveyed by a
single sentence: eg Yesterday morning, on the main street in the city
centre, Mr Wang had a car accident. This sentence contains all the
elements of narration (except cause and effect): the time (when the
event occurred), the place (where the event occurred), the agent (the
person or persons who take part in the action), and the action (the
thing done).
Because narration follows the laws of chronological succession, in the
narrative the pattern can be as follows:
Introduction(contains time, place, agent, and beginning of action)
Event 1
Event 2
Event 3
.
.
.
Conclusion
1.3 Narration often goes hand in hand with description. Practising
writing a factual description of a place and a day's routine associated
with the place is useful.
1.4 In real life, one is often required to write a personal factual
narrative on particular events. It is therefore useful for the students
to learn how to arrange the events in chronological order and to
describe the events in a simple piece of continuous wrting.
1.5 It is very common in narrative writing to write a simple personal
narrative, relating the events of an important day in chronological
order.
1.6 In academic writing, a narrative is often used to outline a sequence of
steps carried out on a specific occasion. It is also particularly important
in report-writing, when the writer outlines the developmental stages of an
experiment or a piece of research, or the sequence of steps in an event such
as a fire or an accident.
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