WRITING III6TH CLASS : MODULE 6

NARRATIVE 2Ai Melani, S.Si, M.Sc., P.hD

Universitas Terbuka

Korea Selatan

ai2345@yahoo.com

OBJECTIVES You are able to …

Develop stories from news headlines Write narrative poems Produce imaginative stories

1 – NEWS HEADLINESGrammar: Stative Passive

News headlines must be written interestingly.

A news headline must be able to tell the story in a very short sentence, but it should trigger the readers to read it.

EXAMPLES Five students killed in a train

crash

GAM kills an Indonesian Army

Megawati to Russia

Model for Developing Stories from News Headlines

GRAMMAR: STATIVE PASSIVEStative passive forms are used to describe an existing

situation or state.

Characteristics:

2 – NARRATIVE POEMSGrammar: Contractions

A poem that tells something.

A poem uses very limited words.

Imagery

Figurative

language

Conno-tation

Deno-tation

NARRATIVE POEMS

SAMPLE FOR Narrative Poem:

GRAMMAR: Contractions

3 – IMAGINATIVE STORIESGrammar: Conditional Sentences

IMAGINATIVE STORIES

Imagi-nation

Paradox of the

existing situatio

n

You may write

impossi-ble

things

Make it nice to read

GRAMMAR: Conditional Sentences

A conditional sentence generally consists of an if-clause (which presents a condition) and a result clause.

TRUE IN THE PRESENT OR FUTURE

UNTRUE (CONTRARY TO FACT) IN THE PRESENT OR FUTURE

UNTRUE (CONTRARY TO FACT) IN THE PAST

WRITING 3MODUL 7 – COMPARATIVE

Sherlia – Spring 2014

A Comparison Essay

A Contrast Essay

An essay in which you emphasize the similarities.

An essay in which you emphasize the differences.

COMPARATIVE 1. First compare, then contrast (or vice versa)

2. First do one idea, then do the other

3. Write only about the comparable and contrastable

elements of each idea

4. Only compare or only contrast

OBJECTIVES You are able to …

Write essays on comparing things Write essays on choices Write essays on giving advice

1 – COMPARISONSGrammar: COMPARING THINGS

COMPARING THINGS

Block arrangement style

Point-by-point or alternating arrangement

style

GRAMMAR: Comparing Things

A. Comparative Adjectives

Adjectives modify, or describe, other words such as nouns and pronouns and answer the questions: which?, how many?, and what kind?

Examples

Adverbs modify, or describe, other words such as verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. They answer the questions: how?, when?, and where?, and to what extent?

B. Comparative Adverbs

Examples

2 – CHOICESGrammar: Expressing Contrast (Unexpected Result)

WRITING CHOICES

Grammar: Expressing Contrast (Unexpected Result)

3 – ADVICEGrammar: Showing Direct Contrast

WRITING ADVICE

You will learn how to respond problem by writing advice.

Grammar: Showing Direct Contrast: While and Whereas