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b. Essay Assignments
a. Descriptive Essay 1: Describing a Place

b. Descriptive Essay 2: Describing a

Person

c. Descriptive Essay 3: Vacation in

Paradise

d. Essay-Based Topic: A Childhood Role
Model

e. Real-World Description: Secret Shopper

4. Narration

a. Techniques for Successful Narration

a. Emphasize Important Details
a. Exercise 8-4 Choosing Relevant Details

b. Use Chronological Order

c. Center on Conflict

d. Show, Don’t Tell
e. Make a Point

b. Wordsmith’s Corner: Examples of Narrative Writing

a. Narrative Essay 1

a. Questions

b. Narrative Essay 2

a. Questions

b. Topics for Narrative Writing

a. Small Scrawls: Imaginative Short Writings