narration (rhetoric)

Photographs and information related to the lives of folk heroes help students learn how to write interesting and effective narrative paragraphs, with activities, charts, and vocabulary exercises designed to help students master every step of the paragraph-writing process.

Offers tips on writing personal narratives, with advice on choosing a topic, planning the story, writing the opening, body, and ending, and checking for spelling and grammar mistakes.

"This book tells a tale, in an . . . account of how an understanding of intellectual disability can transform our understanding of narrative. Instead of focusing on characters with disabilities, it shows how ideas about intellectual disability inform an astonishingly wide array of narrative strategies, providing a new and . . . way of thinking through questions of time."--Provided by publisher.

Contains a collection of brief, narrative, step-by-step stories the help children with autism learn important social skills, describing a situation, skill, or concept in terms of social clues, perspectives, and common responses.

An introduction to the ways that authors present stories. Novel and short story excerpts and analysis help to explain the importance of voice and different narrative points of view.

Describes the tools and strategies of writing effective creative and narrative stories.

Examines four novels from Toni Morrison, "The Bluest Eye," "Tar Baby," "Jazz," and "Beloved," discussing the relationship between race, generic forms, and the dominant culture, and describing Morrison's narrative strategies and the critical claim that her novels lack resolution.