Hello 2012

Goodmorning everyone, I hope you all had a great New Year's weekend! It's finally 2012, and we're starting the first week of it by going to school. Yesterday we had an online class session where we had to discuss about Leah's essay, and the importance of descriptive narration. In Leah's essay, she used the Writing Process Worksheet which allowed her to get a smooth start on her paper. As we all know, the first stage of the writing process is pre-writing, which will help us gather our thoughts and ideas in the subject of our paper. In Leah's case, the pre-writing technique helped her look back on her experience in the sweat lodges, in doing so she can write her draft smoothly without any blockages. An important thing to keep in mind while writing your paper is developing a clear thesis and being aware of your readers. You want to write your thesis statement in a way where it is not vague, too broad, or too narrow, and to start off your essay with a good introduction so that you can lure readers into your subject. The second subject that we had to discuss was descriptive narration which is a type of writing where one describes a situation or an incident in a very vivid and illustrative manner. The two types of writing - descriptive and narrative - are always connected to each other. You can never write a narrative without describing the scenes of the incident. Narratives are spoken or written accounts of an incident or event, and is composed of five parts: the situation, conflict, struggle, outcome, and meaning. The typical point of view in writing a narrative is usually in first person where the author is the main character and is telling the story. The other type is third person, where the author is speaking from a distance, or it may be a summary of a historical or past event. Most important aspect in writing narratives is the order of events. Descriptive writing is where you writing by using your five sense: sight, smell, touch, sound, and taste. The three types of description are objective, subjective and emotional description. Some techniques in descriptive writing are by emphasizing a single point, diction, and establishing a perspective form which to describe to your subject which positioning the details for coherence.

Well, later on today we will be meeting again, not online, but face-to-face where we will be having our first test for EN100! I hope everyone studied, good luck!