ENGLISH COMPOSITION

English composition
the study of fundamental reading and writing
concepts and skills.
• May be said as;
the process of combining distinct parts or
elements to form a whole essay, research
paper, business letters, technical report, or
literary work and the manner in which these
elements are combined or related.
 Kinds of composition
1. Description
2. Exposition
3. Narration
4. Argumentation
 1. Narration
• gives the readers with the impression of a
particular event as well as gives the readers the
sense of actually witnessing it.
• a rhetorical style that basically just tells a story
• Being able to convey events in a clear,
descriptive, chronological order is important in
many fields. e.g
• paragraphs or entire essays using a narrative
style.
 Components of narration
i. Exposition: setting the scene, introducing characters, and
preparing the reader
ii. Rising action: things start to happen, characters
encounter conflict
iii. Climax: peak of the action, the central event toward
which your story has been building
iv. Falling action: wind down, wiser for having had that
experience
v. Resolution: all the loose ends get tied up, conflict has
been resolved, and everything is back to normal, but
perhaps a bit different.
 Uses
• The reader identify with own perspective or
with the view taken by one of his/her
characters or subjects.
• Documentary filmmaking is full of narrative
examples
• People tell the story of what happened as if
they were witnesses, even if the event
happened many years before they were born
• Satire can be a particularly effective form of
narrative, as in Animal Farm and Gulliver’s
Travels.
• Satire works to expose the defects in an idea
or society by telling a fictional tale of a
different social group.
• Fictional characters stand in for real people or
play out social ideas, usually political in
nature.
• can be factual or fictional, depending on the writer’s
purpose
• Biographies and memoirs are examples of factual
stories,
• The writers of factual stories try to recount events
as they actually happened, but
• writers of fictional stories can depart from real
people
• whereas novels and short stories are examples of
fictional stories
 Narrative Essays
• You could think of a narrative essay as a short
story. It’s called an essay,
• but many narrative essays are really just short
stories.
• If you are using narration as the primary
strategy in writing a paper,
 some impression of the following format:
1. Opening
2. Narrative paragraph; divide events into small
paragraphs
3. Closing
 2. Expository writing
is writing that seeks to explain, illuminate or
'expose' facts
• is writing that exposes facts.
• In other words, it's writing that explains and
educates its readers, rather than entertaining or
attempting to persuade them
• An expository writer can't assume that potential
readers have prior knowledge or understanding
about the information that they present.
 Some of the most common examples of
expository writing include;
• scientific reports,
• academic essays and
• magazine articles
based on facts and figures
 Characteristics of expository writing
a few characteristics of expository writing to remember
when crafting
• keep a tight focus on the main topic, avoiding lengthy
tangents, wordiness, or unrelated asides that aren’t
necessary for understanding the topic
• be sure to pick a topic that is narrow, but not so narrow
that you have a hard time writing anything about it
• be sure to support your topic, providing plenty of facts,
details, examples, and explanations in an organized and
logical manner
• Details that can support your expository
writing include:
• Anecdotes
• Comparisons
• Quotations
• Statistics
• Descriptive details
• Definitions
• Charts and graphs
 Methods
• Compare and contrast
• Cause and effect
• Problem and solution
• Extended definition