English Language Writing Skills

By Danso Kwasi Nti Samuel (DAS). Study the complete course source, examine every model and practise alongside Professor Jarvis.

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The body of a story

Plotting

Stories have a main event—what you intend to achieve in the story. Therefore, much

information must be gathered that will lead to an actual event in the story to be clear. This

means that, whatever news that story needs to present, there must be enough evidence here

to show that the event is unfolding. The question is how we develop the events in a story.

Here are some clues.

   1. Sad stories can be developed from a happy beginning

   2. Happy stories can be developed from the sad beginning

The plotting of a story should be in paragraphs and adequately fixed to the main event in the

story. The introduction of any character in the story should actually achieve the story line of

the main event. So, briefly So, briefly describe the background of the new character and his

role. Please, any claim made should be proven by using paragraphing skills and time

sequence transitions.

Let us look at an example. example.

Example

Boko was, in fact, living on a bed of roses during the early years of his existence. The parents

possessed immense wealth; the father, as the town chief, owned and maintained the entire

area filled with properties and natural resources, earning millions of Ghana Cedis from

mining in the Bodwesango land. Furthermore, the father practiced law at Adede and

Associates, a respectable business. These were all, in fact, several indications of the family's

wealth. Along with the aforementioned, the mother was a well-known businesswoman that

supplies all the towns in the neighbourhood with clothing of all kinds. She even supplies

clothing of all kinds to businesses abroad.