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Description, Narration, and
Example in Action
1 Examine description, narration, and
example in professional writing.
In this chapter , you have the opportunity to examine and use the
techniques of description, narration, and example. To help you
become skilled in using these techniques, the text analyzes and
explains each one separately. In reality, they are rarely used that way.
Instead, authors combine techniques, using the ones that best suit
their purposes for writing.
Before looking at description, narration, and example separately, look
at how professional writers use the techniques together, first in a piece
by Maya Angelou and then in a poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Examining an Essay
