Sentences with phrase «in narrative writing»

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.

It includes «relevant details, dialogue, and / or description,» also known as the «three Ds in narrative writing.»

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

Not exact matches

In this new course, Raja aims to teach students to improve their work by examining their writing on four separate levels: narrative, paragraph, sentence, all the way down to individual words.

Countless books and articles were written about it, but only «The Smartest Guys in the Room» holds up a decade later as the definitive narrative.

And while journalists scrutinize the oil, finance and agricultural industries, tourism is generally considered a pleasant, frivolous pursuit — an aspirational hobby relegated to a newspaper's Travel pages, where breezy first - person narratives are written with a journalistic looseness that wouldn't make it past the editors in the Sports or Arts sections.

Instead of jumping straight into a conversation, or snoozing through bullet - pointed sentence fragments in a slideshow presentation, he requires his senior executives to write six - page narrative memos.

It was nearly a year and a half ago that we wrote in AllThingsD about the remarkable and inspiring narrative we called «Egypt 2.0.»

When Jordan Bishop is not writing personal or company profiles, he contributes insights about the misunderstood to publications like Forbes, never - before - told travel narratives to a handful of in - flight magazines and enables international clients to tell transformative stories as a principal at STORIED Agency.

Why an author would write a narrative account, and then later (near the end of the entire supposed «defense», in chapters 20/21) state «but these are written that you might believe X, Y, and Z»?

Even the various forms of theological activity can be redescribed in narrative terms, as when Newbigin writes of «the congregation as hermeneutic of the gospel»: interpretation of Scripture for Newbigin is not so much what a particular scholar writes as what a particular community of believers enacts.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

«The tone of the writing, the format of the page, and the directness of the dialog allows the tradition of passing down the biblical narrative to come through in «The Voice.»»

If Cheever can be said to have written out of a Christian sensibility, the proof lies in his astonishing narrative charity.

How in the name of all things right and good did we get to this wrong place, and how does every parent look at their sons and daughters and write a different narrative?

A childhood memoir written half a century after the events it describes is inevitably novelistic, and Oz explicitly alludes to the shaping of his narrative in fictional terms.

What Mark put together was a narrative of the mighty works and death of Jesus — a book largely devoted to explaining why Jesus had died — and he had to write it in haste in the midst of danger, not for Jews, but for Gentile converts.

The inference seems to be that the Marcan passion narrative was already in fairly stable form when Mark wrote, and that it continued to be told and retold in practically this form — possibly at the Christian services of worship and quite apart from the written Gospels, indeed before The Gospels were compiled

As he wrote earlier in this chapter, any use of the test as «a substitute for searching conversation» about world view / setting and the other dimensions of narrative explored later in the book was in his view more likely to yield a mechanist reduction than a deepened symbolic understanding.

Newman's narrative — written in answer to Charles Kingsley's accusation of dishonesty — was compelling in its honesty and coherence, at times painfully so.

This theme recurs in Maxine Greene's writing, as she points to the inherent link between the individual's consciousness and the social reality, a link that is fostered by narrative teaching.

Yet he admits that the use of classical rhetoric has its limitations and problems, especially in establishing the conscious use of standards for oratory in the writing of narratives and letters.

Burke recommends that the analysis of any written work should begin with the «principle of the concordance».21 The critic builds an index of significant terms: terms that recur in changing contexts, terms that occur at significant points in the narrative, terms that seem heavy with symbolic meaning.

Ancient apocalyptic represented a crisis in which it was a question whether the narrative vision could survive, and now, in the world of imaginative writing, it is equally or even more questionable whether narrative vision can survive.

In the present volume there are repeated and sometimes moving narratives of a sense of «coming home» upon joining the homosexual community, much as Cardinal Newman and other converts have written about «coming home» when they joined the Roman Catholic Church.

It contains truth and fiction written in very lively narrative form reflecting both theology of the East Syrian church and the history of the origins of Christianity in India.

And so I in my turn, your Excellency, as one who has gone over the whole course of these events in detail, have decided to write a connected narrative for you, so as to give you authentic knowledge about the matters of which you have been informed.1

These narratives were written not as scripts but as pronouncements of God's actions in history.

Marcus could read and write — though he could not write well, and had no inclinations to authorship, even in that publishing center of the western Mediterranean in the days of Nero — and so, as one of the few in the local congregation of Christians who could both read and write, he was commissioned to put together in his free time — probably late evenings, after the assembly of the Christians had broken up — the fragmentary translations of narratives from the story of Jesus and his teaching which were in circulation in the Roman church.

In Out of Sorts, Sarah Bessey — award - winning blogger and author of Jesus Feminist, which was hailed as «lucid, compelling, and beautifully written» (Frank Viola, author of God's Favorite Place on Earth)-- helps us grapple with core Christian issues using a mixture of beautiful storytelling and biblical teaching, a style well described as «narrative theology.»

I call the made - up thing I do «narrative theology» because in almost all of my writing, I'm exploring the ways that I encounter God theologically in my life as it stands.

«How stupid the Jewish theologians were who wrote this narrative and did not even understand what an explosive concept they included in their own representation of God.

Even in writing the life of the legendary Churchill, said the New York Times, Gilbert «sought out the prime minister's former secretaries, chauffeurs and other employees to lend the narrative a populist perspective.»

Oral epic song is narrative poetry, composed in a manner evolved over many generations by singers of tales who did not know how to write.

«He tested their truths in the truth of narrative,» Mark Van Doren wrote, and he «found them wanting.»

Inasmuch as many have taken in hand to set in order a narrative of those things which have been fulfilled among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write to you an orderly account, most excellent Theophilus, that you may know the certainty of those things in which you were instructed.

B. W. Bacon wrote: «The present narrative is as certainly earlier than the elaborations of Matthew, Luke and John, as it is certainly later than the series of visions in Cor.

«The Easter message awakened Easter faith, and this expressed itself in the Easter narratives», writes Gerhard Gloege.1 Having discussed the rise and nature of the Easter message, and the Easter faith which it awakened in the earliest Christian community, we now turn to the Easter narratives with which all four Gospels conclude, and which are widely recognized to be a later development.

«By the time of the writing of the gospels,» notes C. F. Evans, «it had disappeared, leaving behind no more than an echo, and that not in narrative but in credal form («The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon»), which Luke has some difficulty in attaching as an awkward pendant to his Emmaus story.»

Here we are on much firmer ground than in the case of the Gospel narratives, for not only is it the earliest written testimony to the resurrection (written about twenty to twenty - five years after the death of Jesus), but it is first - hand testimony, and most probably the «only written testimony to come from one who could claim to be himself an «eye - witness» of the resurrection».18 Admittedly Paul, on his own admission, was in a very unusual category.

Grounded in the deep things of faith, she writes in a vivid style and transposes the claims of faith into compelling concrete narrative.

The Bible is written in narrative, poetry, and the highly imaginative genre of apocalyptic.

[35] Justin goes on to point to examples as well as paper over disreputable elements in these narratives, and writes that

Interestingly, the depictions are what would be expected of relatively primitive hunting societies, but to my knowledge, they certainly do not reflect a literate people, let alone a people who were familiar with the particular oral or written narrative contained in Genesis or this book's alleged supreme deity.

The American poet Wallace Stevens once wrote that a poem should not be a narrative statement but should be «a meteor, or a pheasant disappearing in the bush.»

If you are preaching, teaching, or writing about the birth narratives in the Gospels (Matthew 2, Luke 1 - 2, etc), this is a book you absolutely must read.

«I suspect that when the dust settles,» writes Johnson, «we shall find that the «historical Jesus» is just where he was all the time: in the fourfold testimony and interpretation of the Gospel narratives.

«A strong values narrative attracted many in 2008, including many religious voters who had long eluded the Democrats,» the Rev. Jim Wallis, a progressive evangelical who advises the Obama White House, wrote in an election analysis memo on Wednesday.

Though I have written this book in part to set forth what I think is a neglected perspective among scholars, researchers, and consultants who study congregations, at the end of the ministerial day it matters less whether private analysts understand the narrative features of the congregation than whether the congregation itself understands those features.

A genre of writing that fascinates some scholars and clergy consists of books and articles written by scientists who, venturing beyond what can be securely proved, present larger visions of the cosmos, life, the beginning and the end of all things, and the place of the human in the grand narrative.