The document provides an overview of narrative paragraphs, highlighting their definition, structure, and advantages in academic writing. It includes examples, such as 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', to illustrate how narrative paragraphs convey events and character perspectives. Key components of a narrative paragraph are identified as central idea, characters, plot, setting, and description.

1. ACADEMIC WRITING: UNIT 2
NARRATIVE PARAGRAPH
DANI MAURICIO ORDOÑEZ
GROUP 5
LILIANA ISABEL MORENO
TUTOR
OPEN AND DISTANCE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
CEAD PITALITO HUILA
2015

2. DEFINITION
 The Narrative Paragraphs are used when people
need to tell or talk about an event or series of
events in time, usually in chronogical order . The
narrative means that it has events, that is set in
the time, tells something, is used in novels and
stories, the verbs generally are in perfect or
imperfect.
“Harry was in the house, then he heard a noise, he
went to the basement, and something surprised
him”
Character – Harry
Place – in his house
Verb – in Past

3. ADVANTAGES
 You can use a narrative paragraph to convey
subjective information to your readers. In recounting
from the perspective of a character from history or
from the limited perspective of the author.
 The writers use more creativity adding narrative texts
to your readers.
 It is a very flexible type of text because you can
choose in which person express etc. and is a
typology that mix well with others, such as descriptive
or dialogue.

4. EXAMPLE
 HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
When Harry enters his sixth year at Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry, the world is in turmoil. Voldemort's
army is gaining force and momentum, and tragedies are
everyday occurrences. The Muggle world is experiencing
great loss and havoc as well, and fear abounds. The Prime
Minister of the Muggle world meets with both the former and
current Ministers of Magic, and the news is not good. It would
seem that a war is at hand, and even Hogwarts isn't entirely
safe. After seeing Draco Malfoy conduct sketchy business at
Borgin and Burkes at the beginning of the school year (while
on a school supply shopping trip with the Weasleys in Diagon
Alley), Harry is convinced that Draco now works for
Voldemort and is plotting something big. Harry proceeds to
spend his year at Hogwarts following Draco's actions
carefully. However, few believe Harry's theory that Draco has
become a Death Eater.

5. Outline 1
To look realistic, the overall dialogue has to be short
and relatively simple style. On the other hand, in
narrative texts can use a denser style to include a
lot of information. This allows you to tell the story
and present various points to your reader, and
philosophical inferences. You can also do this
through dialogue, however, is likely to expose the
points that are more vague and / or misleading
because of the relative simplicity of the text box.

6. Outline 2
 The narrative paragraph must have:
 A central idea (what the story/event is about)
 Characters (who it is about)
 A plot (conflict, compilation, climax and
resolution of the story)
 Setting (when and where the story happens)
 Adequate description.

7. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 TUFFELMIRE, Dana. The Advantages of Narrative
Writing:
http://classroom.synonym.com/advantages-
narrative-writing-1248.html
 RINEHART & WINSTON, What are types of
Paragraphs. UNAD Module Course of Academic
Writing
 J.K. ROWLING. http://www.shmoop.com/harry-
potter-half-blood-prince/summary.html