Sentences with phrase «narrative writing focus»

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«Apple has found a narrative revolving around capital allocation,» analyst Neil Cybart, whose well - regarded Above Avalon newsletter focuses on Apple, wrote last month.

Now, Focus Features is looking at this very issue: written by Daniel Kunka and bought for Smokehouse and Spotlight producers Blye Pagon Faust and Nicole Rocklin, the drama is inspired by a number of different stories, including a piece sourced by the Center for Investigative Reporting, to put together a narrative for what is tentatively titled (and aptly named) Trading In Starvation.

Instead of following the standard narrative setup, the script which is written by Christensen and Jason Dolan focuses on three different stages of Hall's life.

DuVernay will write and direct all episodes of the narrative drama, which focuses on the 1989 case in which five black teenagers...

The main focus is how to write an extended narrative - with each skill building logically on from the next.

«In my class, I ask students to write essays that are exploratory and meditative,» Sommers says, «essays that focus on the interplay of the particular and the universal, on the flexibility and experimental nature of the essay genre, and on the development of a narrative voice to tell a compelling story.»

The Common Core writing standards call for students to focus on evidence - based writing — specifically argument and informative / explanatory texts in high school, with less time spent on writing «real or imagined» narratives (the elementary and middle school Standards (PDF) suggest that the split be roughly even between the three genres).

My narrative unit now focuses on reading and writing historical fiction and / or science fiction writing.

The lesson focuses on how to use, structure and link paragraphs in narrative writing.

To help the students personally connect to writing, Mount Desert uses the Reading and Writing Project (RWP) from Lucy Calkins of Teachers College at Columbia University, which focuses on writing narrative from a personal and emotional perspective and places a strong emphasis on reading topics matched to the students» reading and comprehension awriting, Mount Desert uses the Reading and Writing Project (RWP) from Lucy Calkins of Teachers College at Columbia University, which focuses on writing narrative from a personal and emotional perspective and places a strong emphasis on reading topics matched to the students» reading and comprehension aWriting Project (RWP) from Lucy Calkins of Teachers College at Columbia University, which focuses on writing narrative from a personal and emotional perspective and places a strong emphasis on reading topics matched to the students» reading and comprehension awriting narrative from a personal and emotional perspective and places a strong emphasis on reading topics matched to the students» reading and comprehension ability.

As a result of this daily focus on reading nonfiction and writing in response to argumentative, informative and narrative prompts, we have witnessed greater gains in our students» writing, analytical thinking skills and confidence than we have ever experienced before in over two decades of combined teaching.

You can extend this resource in class by focussing on specific topics - adverbs, adjectives, writing stories, writing narratives, fiction and non-fiction, planning a story, writing dialogue, writing descriptions, writing specific nouns and active verbs etc..

The modules focused on Narrative Writing, Persuasive Writing, Modern Music, Writing and Advocacy, Autobiographies and Teaching, and Teaching Writing in Social Studies (see Figure 2).

Each module includes writing workshops focused on a particular type of writing (e.g., opinion, narrative).

The traits focus on universal features of quality writing applicable to all purposes and text types of writing, including the argumentative, informative / explanatory, and narrative text types that are the focus of the CCSS

NSCS's writing curriculum focuses on ensuring students understand and apply basic grammar skills through the explicit, research - based teaching required to develop rich written language and helps the student apply these skills to research, informative writing, persuasive argument, narratives and college preparatory writing.

These writing - to - learn strategies can include freewriting, focused freewriting, narrative writing, response writing (for example, response logs, starters, or dialectic notebooks), loop writing (writing on an idea from different perspectives), and dialogue writing (for example, with an author or a character)(Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking, n.d.; Elbow & Belanoff,writing - to - learn strategies can include freewriting, focused freewriting, narrative writing, response writing (for example, response logs, starters, or dialectic notebooks), loop writing (writing on an idea from different perspectives), and dialogue writing (for example, with an author or a character)(Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking, n.d.; Elbow & Belanoff,writing, response writing (for example, response logs, starters, or dialectic notebooks), loop writing (writing on an idea from different perspectives), and dialogue writing (for example, with an author or a character)(Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking, n.d.; Elbow & Belanoff,writing (for example, response logs, starters, or dialectic notebooks), loop writing (writing on an idea from different perspectives), and dialogue writing (for example, with an author or a character)(Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking, n.d.; Elbow & Belanoff,writing (writing on an idea from different perspectives), and dialogue writing (for example, with an author or a character)(Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking, n.d.; Elbow & Belanoff,writing on an idea from different perspectives), and dialogue writing (for example, with an author or a character)(Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking, n.d.; Elbow & Belanoff,writing (for example, with an author or a character)(Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking, n.d.; Elbow & Belanoff,Writing and Thinking, n.d.; Elbow & Belanoff, 1989).

Writing Studio, a writing companion to CKLA, offers focused lessons in the three key text types — informative, narrative, and oWriting Studio, a writing companion to CKLA, offers focused lessons in the three key text types — informative, narrative, and owriting companion to CKLA, offers focused lessons in the three key text types — informative, narrative, and opinion.

Each unit focuses on one genre of writing: narrative, informative / explanatory, opinion, descriptive, poetry, or correspondence.

The team's focus was to improve students» structure and craft in narrative writing, to meet their goal of getting most students to a particular score on a writing rubric connected to the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessments.

This class is designed for those who have some experience with memoir and narrative essays and want to focus on writing about personal experiences with chronic illness and / or disability.

The short, focused writing of personal narrative poetry makes it ideal for teaching the trait of word choice.

A Profound Waste of Time is a new magazine from the UK, focusing on — says its successful Kickstarter campaign blurb — «a bold new video game culture magazine, a lovingly produced home to great writing on the medium and its accompanying narratives».

The entire book is designed to resemble a thick case file focusing on one Arno Dorian, star of Assassin's Creed: Unity, and features written reports on the character and the events surrounding him authored by a previous Abstergo employee by the name of Richard Fraser, a man whose story unfolds throughout the book, providing a light narrative to the case file.

«Those who can appreciate a beautifully written and incredibly unique narrative - focused adventure will find themselves drawn in right until the very end...»

Fullbright's followup to 2013's Gone Home is similarly focused on narrative, but it presents it in an innovative way that thinks outside the audio - log and written - note box.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Focusing primarily on American art with a further emphasis on New York, Molesworth has written this narrative around key socio - political events, deliberately avoiding common dominant «appropriation» vs. «neo-expressionist» characterizations.

A number of well - written articles chronicle at least some of the history of legal writing in the law school curriculum.1 However, those articles were written with a different purpose in mind: the authors sought to employ history to show the pedigree of legal writing and argue for an equal place in the curriculum with doctrinal courses and an equal position for its teachers with other «case - book» faculty.2 Because of this purpose, they understandably focused a large part of their historical narrative on legal writing in the «modern law - school,» an entity that has existed only since the late 1800s.3 The articles paid considerably less attention to the era that preceded it, beyond brief mentions of the Inns of Court in England, apprenticeship in America, and the private law schools and early attempts at law teaching that preceded Langdell's introduction of the case method.4

Sperling and Shapcott's and Rosen's recommendations for fostering a growth mindset in law schools focus primarily on communicating a growth mindset message to law students — be it from professors who have examined their own mindsets and thereby shifted their expectations and language; 188 through orientation programs that include growth - oriented messages from administrators, professors and guest speakers; 189 by framing assignments and evaluation in terms of process; 190 by professors who teach legal writing using their expertise in narrative to tell stories that show that legal writing and analysis skills are learned through effort and persistence; 191 by professors and administrators «communicat [ing] that law school has academic value beyond the first year» and «encourag [ing] students to view rankings and large firm job placements as indicative of mastery that can be obtained through learning and hard work»; 192 or, by providing growth mindset student mentors for incoming students.193

Scholars of the discipline expanded from dissecting the practice of teaching legal writing and began to focus on law as rhetoric.11 Progressively, the teaching of legal argument had led to curiosity about rhetorical devices and narrative techniques.12 The importance of plain or accessible language became a key component of effective communication.13 The intersection of legal writing and storytelling emerged as an important area of the scholarly discourse.14 The discipline's character developed and created new and emerging sub-characters within the story.

Automated Insights — the Durham, North Carolina - based startup backed by the Associated Press, Samsung and Steve Case that has built technology to automatically take raw data and translate it into narratives that look like they've been written by a human — has been acquired by the $ 14 billion private equity firm Vista Equity Partners and portfolio company STATS, which focuses on sports data analysis.