How to Write Great Narrative Essays

By Kalvin Lee

Learning to write narrative essays is one of the main foundational stones in building your writing skills. But there are not many books that teach narrative essay writing. This book simplifies narrative essay writing in a way anyone with little writing experience can start writing good narrative essays.

 

Learning to write well requires many skills to work together. One of the reasons why some books that teach how to write does not work is that they do not teach readers the other skills necessary to become a writer. This book is different. It teaches you how to write narrative essays by teaching you all the other skills that will help you think like a writer and write like a writer.

 

This book starts by giving you an overview of the five types of essays. Knowing the five types is important because each type of essay has its own purpose and form. Narrative essay is one type of essay. Its primary purpose is to describe events.

 

Narrative essays are made up of four parts. Being able to identify the different parts and knowing how they all work together is important in learning any skills including in essay writing. You will learn how to write narrative essays using these parts.

 

Some narrative essays are good; some are bad. How do you know the difference? Knowing the difference is important because you want to write good essay. This book will show you the five qualities of good narrative essays so that you can use them in your own essays.

 

All great writers are great readers. You need to read a lot to write a lot. But before you start reading, you need to know how to read. Knowing how to read will help you understand what you read better and in the end help you write better. This book teaches you one of the most effective reading strategies: the five-step method. Then you will learn how to apply this method when you read narrative essays.

 

The second part of the book will teach you the actual writing process. Having learnt the other foundational skills in the first part, when you start writing your essay it should be a smooth sailing. Your writing will be automatic.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kalvin Lee
• Release date: Jun 13, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393924616

Kalvin Lee

Kalvin Lee enjoys learning and teaching. There are few things in the world that does not interest him. What he learns on his own he is always eager to share with others. Kalvin is a professional bureaucrat from nine to five; a web designer, an aspiring writer and a loving parent (hopefully) for the rest of the day; and, a passionate golfer on the weekends. He has a BA in journalism from Australia and MA in Security and Diplomacy from the UK.

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How to Write NARRATIVE ESSAYS

KALVIN LEE

Copyright © 2019 by Kalvin Lee

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without written permission of the copyright owner except for use of quotations in a book review.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I – Introduction to Essay Writing

CHAPTER II – The Five Types of Essays

CHAPTER III – The Four Parts of Narrative Essay

CHAPTER IV – The Five Qualities of Good Narrative Essay

CHAPTER V – How to Become an Excellent Reader

CHAPTER VI – How to Read Narrative Essays

CHAPTER VII – How to Write Narrative Essays

CHAPTER VIII – The Language of Essay Writing

CHAPTER I

Introduction to Essay Writing

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What is Essay?

The word essay is derived from the Latin word exagium which means to present one’s case. In other words, an essay is a short piece of writing through which you share your story, experience, or your side of the argument.

Think of essays as an important form of communication. As children, we talk in single words because our young brain is capable of handling only one or two items at a time. As we grow up, we use short sentences followed by longer, more complete sentences. Now imagine someone asking you to tell about the best day of your life in one word or one sentence. That would be extremely difficult to do. But if someone asks you to write an essay about it, you will have no problem telling about the best day of your life. Similarly, if you want to teach your friends how a bicycle works in one sentence, it may be impossible. But if you write an essay about it, you can definitely do that. The point you need to remember here is that learning, understanding or explaining complex events and ideas cannot be done in a single sentence or in a single paragraph. This is where essays come in. Essay helps you learn, understand and explain complex things.

Why Do You Need to Learn to Write Essays?

Essay writing is one of the most important skills you can learn. It is an important tool of learning any subject and also sharing with other people what you already know. But there are other reasons why you need to learn essay writing.

You will be required to write essays in all high school, in college, and in university. How well you write essays will decide the marks you get in your examinations and assessments throughout your student life. If you develop your essay writing skills now, you will continue to get better marks as you go to higher classes.

Do not think that essay writing has to do only with learning English. It is not. The skills you learn in essay writing can also help you study other subjects better. When you can write better essays, you can also answers questions in other subjects better. As you move to higher classes, all subjects will require you to write essays. Without good essay writing skills, you will not be able to score good marks in English as well as in other subjects. But if you can write good essays, your score in all subjects will improve. Essay writing skills are essential in order for you to become a successful student at all levels.

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Reviews for How to Write Great Narrative Essays

[Happiness Channel · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Provides a clear, easy-to-understand approach to writing narrative essays; best for high school students but anyone learning to write will benefit from it.