Types of Writing

• Descriptive writing : The purpose of descriptive writing is to describe a person, an object, a place or anything that can be communicated through the five senses.

  It helps the readers visualize everything that is written.


  In descriptive writing, the author does not just tell the reader what is seen, felt, tasted, smelled, or heard.

  Descriptive writing has to be concrete, evocative and plausible.
• Five basic elements(descriptive)-

  • Sensory details: It involves arousing the emotions of the readers and creating an association with them.
  • Figurative Language: Using figurative language is one of the main elements.
  • Central theme: purpose
  • Precise Language: exactness
  • Organization of your ideas
• Narrative writing

  • Writers use a narrator style to present their point of view in a chronological manner.
  • can be fiction or nonfiction
  • essay, fairy tales, autobiographies and news stories.
• Common types of narratives

  • Descriptive narrative

  • Viewpoint narrative

  • Historical narrative

  • Linear narrative

  • Non-linear narrative
• 3 necessary components of a narrative

  1. Exposition – background information, followed by complication
  2. Events of the narrative
  3. Resolution – the story’s end
• 6 traits of narrative writing

  1. Voice
  2. Ideas
  3. Presentation
  4. Conventions
  5. Organization
  6. Word Choice, and
  7. Sentence Fluency
• Overall points to consider a narrative writing

  • Setting: place, time, people, environment
  • Character: people in the narration
  • Plot: story line
  • Conflict: problem
  • Theme: intention, purpose, central idea, main point
  • Point-of-view: First Person, Second Person, Third Person; impersonal
  • Tone: mood- happy, sad, upsetting, sarcastic, etc.
  • Style
• Argumentative writing A typical argumentative writing comprises three or more paragraphs that explain the reasons why you support your thesis
• 5 parts of an argumentative writing

  The information is organized based on the following major components of an argument: claim, reason, evidence, counter-claim and rebuttal.