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Narration: What’s in a Story?

Purpose of the narrative: entertainment or information?

Most students know that narration, or storytelling, is used extensively in various forms of entertainment—short stories, novels, films, and television. However, the narrative is also used to give a factual account of a single experience or a series of related events in historical, biographical, or expository writing. For example, newspaper reporters use narration almost exclusively in their news and feature stories to answer the questions: Who? What? When? Where? and How? Editorial and opinion writers must answer these questions and also explore the «why» of actions, issues, and ideas in their articles. Of the three classes of writing (exposition, narration, and description), narration is the easiest to produce because it is the closest to oral communication. All we have to do is «tell what happened,» something we have been trained to do since we learned to talk. This instruction was reinforced when we learned to read, and our books were full of short, simple narratives about the lives of fictional families.

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