Writing Narrative Compositions/Essays (Of Not Less Than 250 Words)

1. Refers to a piece of writing on a particular topic, event, or person.
2. It can be expository, narrative, argumentative, or descriptive compositions.
3. Composition can be written at college, school, and university as a part of studies or as an assignment given on a particular course.
4. In writing composition, a student is supposed to generate their own ideas and use them to narrate, describe, explain, argue, or persuade a certain thing or event.

• Involves writing essays, letters, poems, stories, debates, speeches, and dialogue.
• These forms involve a collection of ideas that are organized in a good manner/pattern on a given topic or subject.

1. Title

   • Start with the title.
   • The title should be written in capital letters.
   • The title should be underlined if handwritten and bold if typed.
   • The title should relate to the topic or subject given.

2. Structure

   • Put your ideas in small but detailed paragraphs.
   • Revise and edit your work carefully.
   • Divide your essay into three parts:
     • Introduction — Relates to the title (i.e., defines and explains the key words from the title).
     • Main Body — The main part of the composition. Discuss your ideas in relation to the topic or subject given, planned. The main ideas should precede the minor ideas. Consider the logical arrangement of your ideas and points.
     • Conclusion — Under this part, you may give suggestions, views, or opinions on the topic discussed. It should reflect the whole content discussed in your essay.

There are various types of composition, namely:

1. Narrative composition/essay.
2. Expository composition/essay.
3. Descriptive composition/essay.
4. Argumentative/persuasive composition/essay.

1. These are essays that account for or give stories of events.
2. The stories may be:
   • Personal
   • Fiction or non-fiction
   • Historical stories or events

Types of Narrative Essays

• Personal Autobiographical Stories — Focus on the author's or writer's own life.
• Historical Stories — Rely on past events/happenings.
• Non-Fiction Stories — Based on truth or true events.
• Fictional Stories — Depend on imagination and the use of figurative language to produce a story according to the writer or author.

Narrative Essay

• Involves telling a story about someone or something.
• You may present and narrate or tell your experience on a piece of paper.

Writing Events in the Past

• A narrative essay often involves writing about events that happened in the past.

HOW KIBONGE WAS HUNTED BY TWO WOLVES

The next morning, when I went down to the river to fill my can, I was horrified to see a dog's tracks that were bigger than my fist. I turned back to my tent, made my breakfast, packed up and get started.

But just as I was leaving I saw two cars over a bush; it was a wolf all right. The brute shrank down out of sight as I looked, but when I moved on it followed me, keeping under cover, and presently I found that there were two of them walking and hunting together. Every now and then one of them showed itself in the open and I had a shot at it, but they were quick you'd think they saw the flash and dodged the bullet – and I never touched them once.

After I had several shots at them I happen to look at my belt, and I'd only one to more left. I would come but with a heavy pack, and had cut down my ammunition to six or eight rounds to same weight.' No more shooting, Kibonge. "I said you keep the rounds for yourself'' if they got me, I tell you I wasn't going to turn into pieces alive.

As I went on without firing, the wolves gradually realized that there was no danger and they got more and more cheeky, keeping closer and closer to me and calling to one another to check up on my movements. I had to use up one of my two last shots on them. They followed the raft down along the sands, but eventually it drifted to the other side of the river, and I got away. Of course the Indians said it was my own fault for going out alone.