WRITING 3

MODUL 6
NARRAT
IVE

Meiliza
Spring 20
15

Objectives
0 You are able to
0 Develop stories from news headlines
0 Write narrative poems
0 Produce imaginative stories

1 NEWS
HEADLINE
S

Grammar:
Stative P
assive

News headlines must be written

interestingly.
A news headline must be able to tell the
story in a very short sentence, but it
should trigger the readers to read it.

Examples
Five students killed in a train
crash

GAM kills an Indonesian Army

Megawati to Russia

Model for Developing Stories from News

Headlines

Grammar: Stative Passive

Stative passive forms are used to describe an existing
situation or state.

Characteristics:

2 NARRA
TIVE
POEMS
Grammar:
Contract
ions

NARRATIVE
POEMS
Imager
y

Figurati
ve
languag
e

Connotation

Denotation

A poem that tells

something.
A poem uses very limited
words.

SAMPLE FOR Narrative Poem:

GRAMMAR: Contractions

3
IMAGINAT
I VE
STORIES
Grammar:

Condition
a

l Sentenc
es

IMAGINATIVE
STORIES
Imagination

Paradox
of the
existing
situatio
n

You
may
write
imposs
i-ble
things

Make it
nice to
read

GRAMMAR: Conditional
Sentences
A conditional sentence generally
consists of an if-clause (which
presents a condition) and a result
clause.

TRUE IN THE PRESENT OR FUTURE

UNTRUE (CONTRARY TO FACT) IN THE

PRESENT OR FUTURE

UNTRUE (CONTRARY TO FACT) IN THE

PAST

WRITING 3
MODUL 7
COMPAR
ATIVE
Meiliza
Spring 20
15

COMPARATIVE

A Comparison Essay

1. First compare, then contrast

(or vice versa)

2. First do one idea, then do the

other

An essay in which you

emphasize the similarities.

A Contrast Essay
An essay in which you
emphasize the differences.

3. Write only about the

comparable and contrastable
elements of each idea

4. Only compare or only contrast

Objectives
0 You are able to
0 Write essays on comparing things
0 Write essays on choices
0 Write essays on giving advice

1
COMPARIS
O

NS

Grammar:
COMPARI
N G T HING
S

COMPARING
THINGS

Block arrangement style

Point-by-point or
alternating arrangement
style

GRAMMAR: Comparing Things

A. Comparative Adjectives
Adjectives modify, or describe,
other words such as nouns and
pronouns
and
answer
the
questions: which?, how many?,
and what kind?

Examples

B. Comparative Adverbs
Adverbs modify, or describe,
other words such as verbs,
adjectives, and other adverbs.
They
answer
the
questions:
how?, when?, and where?, and to
what extent?

Examples

2 CHOIC
ES

Grammar:
Expressin
g Contra
(Unexpec
st
ted Resu
lt)

WRITING
CHOICES

Grammar: Expressing Contrast (Unexpected

Result)

3 ADVIC
E

Grammar:
Showing
Direct Co
ntrast

WRITING
ADVICE

You will learn how to respond problem by writing

advice.

Grammar: Showing Direct Contrast: While and

Whereas