It may take a few days for you and your mother to
work through the following explanatory material. There are two fairly complicated ideas
here, but they are both very important. You must understand the structure of expository
writing. If this is your first year working with Writing Strands, it will seem
complicated. It is not. If you were to read a number of articles, not experiences, in Reader's
Digest, you would find that the authors used a structure much like the one outlined
here. You will have other chances to practice this mode of writing, and you will get good
at structuring your writing this way.
The second important experience in this lesson is
the point of view material. Don't expect to understand it all with the first reading. If
you haven't worked with point of view material before, this will be new to you. Take it a
bit at a time. It will become clear as you practice it. Much of it is just logical and you
already use it correctly.
A narrative voice is created by an author to talk
to a reader. He uses this voice to tell his story, and, in the creation of this voice, the
author has a number of choices of the kind of voice to use.
A book or story is not told to the reader by the
author but by this narrative voice the author creates. This is a strange situation, but it
is the way it is done.
