From the course: Editing Mastery: How to Edit Writing to Perfection
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What is the narrative structure?
From the course: Editing Mastery: How to Edit Writing to Perfection
What is the narrative structure?
- Welcome back and now, here's where we're gonna start getting some clear definition into the narrative and that basically comes about by organizing the categories that we've just selected into the best possible order. Let's just remind ourselves what those categories were that all the points can fit into. So, one was why the measures were introduced, two, details of the new measures, three, soft-drink makers reaction to the new measures, four, other similar health initiatives from the government, five, how the new measures will help consumers. So, those are the five categories that I had. The art of editing is being able to choose an order for those categories that you feel is best for this structural edit. So, I want you to go away and order those five categories in the best possible order in your view. The listed categories can be found in the resources for the lecture. Just put them in the order that you think flows well and this is really what's gonna become the underlying…
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What is the "angle"?5m 17s
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Demonstration: Choosing your angle4m 27s
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What are the key sections?2m 54s
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Demonstration: Creating categories8m 57s
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What is the narrative structure?1m 36s
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Demonstration: Creating a narrative12m 51s
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Are the points ordered elegantly?1m 33s
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Demonstration: Ordering points within sections10m 4s
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