Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Language features:
• Written in 1st or 3rd person Writer’s Knowledge:
• Past tense • Rehearse orally before writing
• Chronological, but may contain flashbacks • Be clear about key events
• Distinctive characters • Use detail
• Time connectives • Try to see story in your head as you write
• Dialogue in different tenses • Bring characters alive by their speech,
• Powerful verbs for feelings and actions actions, responses, feelings
• Language used to create effect • Know your ending
• Dialogue to move the story forward • Use questions to draw reader into events
• Use a small number of characters
• Main character makes a comment at the end