RAWS - 1ST SUMMATIVE Flashcards
- involves deep understanding of how one can achieve well-focused and unified ideas in a composition. It is important to use strategies developing ideas using a particular pattern through narration.
NARRATION
Ex: When students are asked to come up with a summary of a story, they tend to chop parts of the story
and put it in their summary. It leads to create unrelated details that do not contribute in the oneness and clarity of oneโs summary.
NARRATION
contains the plot which gives direction in making a story and tells story or events in chronological
order.
NARRATIVE TEXT
sequential presentation of events
plays an important role.
DEVELOPING NARRATION
helps to create unified thought and to show the transition of events to the next. This leads us to focus on the use of the action words in the story. It also helps to move the story and makes the story interesting.
SIGNAL WORDS
helps to show the reader how
the story moves. Common transitional words are first,
next, then, after and suddenly.
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERING
- the use of appropriate transitional devices in telling stories are noteworthy. ________ helps to
create a vivid picture of what youโre trying to express through written text.
DESCRIPTION
portrays events and brings a scene or object to life in the imagination of the reader.
DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
Description plays an important role to elucidate the nature of people, places and things.
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A series of detailed observation about the subject can help to create a good descriptive paragraph.
DAYAGBIL & ET AL., 2016
Involves the use of adjectives and adverbs in the paragraph.
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words used to describe how the
subject looks, sounds, feels, smells or tastes like. Concerns how you will arrange the details to provide an
image, person, or object you are trying to describe.
SENSORY LANGUAGES
Two types of description
- Objective Description
- Subjective Description
writer presents impartial
and actual picture of the subject without biases and excluding personal impression of the subject.
OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION
Ex: Giving your description of an experiment in class.
OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION
writer gives personal impression of what is observed.
SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION
Ex: used in making fiction stories. When asked to write about a place you visit during summer vacation, you tend to give personal judgment of how you experience the
place.
SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION
provide concise but exact meanings of unfamiliar words and explain special meanings for familiar
words.
DEFINITIONS
used to explain technical words and concepts.
DEFINITIONS
What to define always depends on the needs of the reader and the purpose of communication.
DEFINITIONS