Descriptive and Narrative essays - Guidelines

Descriptive Writing:

1. Use a magnifying glass for detailed description
2. Use careful assortment of Adjectives
3. Impressionistic writing - [page 32 of New English Course - extract from To the Lighthouse]

Narrative Writing: [We read an extract from Huck Finn]

1. A little of Dialogue - little of Description - little of Planning
2. Use Dialogue to establish a character
3. Description - 2 types - Description of action and of objects
4. Never write a story that gives SOLUTION in the end.
5. Never write an story in a strictly chronological order - [Bad Example: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen]
6. Try to include overlapping TIME / Parallel Time in your story-line. 
7. Learn to use Flash-back technique.

In BOTH cases: 

1. Perfect Graphology
2. Variation of Punctuation [Use Semicolon, Colon, Dash, Hyphen carefully] 
3.  Sentence Variation
4. Too many LONG and too many SHORT sentences MUST be avoided.
5. Try to write minimum 650 words in ONE hour.