 Basic Forms of Writing - Forms of Writing Catholic Articles
Introduction
In the present trend of microblogging, some may tend to forget the basic forms
of writing that can make web site content development very effective. Because
the present trend stresses immediate communication in just one or two lines,
what will suffer in the writing is its development into a full narration,
description, argumentation, and analysis. For those who want to do well in
web content development for a basic and small Catholic web site and blog, then
to be effective in writing, we can consider more in-depth the basic forms of writing:
narration, description, argumentation, and analysis.
Writing Catholic articles effectively
Writing Catholic articles also involve full narration, description, argumentation,
and analysis. Before we give some examples of Catholic articles that are
categorized under these four basic forms of writing, let us first see what each
of these forms of writing involve.
Narration
This is the most basic form of writing. Narration is simply the act of describing
action in the order in which it happened. It is thus chronologically linear in its
presentation of action and events - whether the writing is fiction or non-fiction.
This form of writing concentrates on the action involved in the story.
Description
This form of writing tells us what a subject, object, or scene looks like. It
presents to its readers a verbal picture of a person, an object, or a scenery.
The effectiveness and success of this writing depends on the writer's ability
to translate what he saw by experience or through his imagination, into a
very picturesque image in the mind of his readers. Its aim is to give life
to the person, object, or scenery being described.
Argumentation
This form of writing proves the truth of an assertion. For this form of writing
to be effective, it must appeal greatly and directly to the readers' intelligence,
sense of reason, and logic. Argumentation establishes and maintains the truth
asserted with solid and substantial facts, evidences, and an unswerving conclusion.
To be good and effective in argumentation, the writer must hold the attention
of his readers, and influence them to believe in the truth he is asserting.
Analysis
This form of writing examines the elements of a particular topic or subject.
It dissects the main idea of the writing into several parts so that the
readers can be led to understand and appreciate both the parts and the whole.
This form of writing is especially effective when dealing with obscure,
complicated, or comprehensive ideas or realities. Like argumentation,
analysis appeals more to the intellect rather than the heart. The first
two forms of writing, narration and description, tend to appeal more to
the readers' feelings and emotions.
Writing strategy in Catholic web content development
Since the web page is not meant to be a book nor a novel, then to effectively
communicate to our readers, it is best to stick to one form of writing, and
develop it well up to the end of the Catholic article. In a book or novel,
we can combine two or more forms of writing (in a chapter): such as being
descriptive in a narration or analyzing a situation by narrating the details
in linear form, and describing the subjects involved in the situation being
analyzed. For basic web content development, it would be more effective to
choose just one form of writing for the topic we need to develop. This would
make our writing simple, clear, easily comprehensible and a good service to
our readers.
Forms of writing applied to Catholic articles
We can use narration for Catholic articles that inform our readers about
the history of the Church, the lives of the saints, and present-day stories
that can inspire and spiritually uplift our readers. On the other hand, we
can use description for Catholic articles that give biographical sketches of
popular personalities in the Church: like modern-day saints, Pope Benedict XVI,
John Paul II, and other colorful personalities that can attract the attention
and hearts of our readers.
For using argumentation in a Catholic article, we can venture into writing
apologetics - a form of Catholic writing that aims to explain and justify
our Catholic doctrines. Or we can simply assert a catechetical truth by
plainly appealing to our readers' common sense, basic reason and logic.
Finally, as regards analysis, this can involve the examination of a moral
issue - by looking deeply into all the elements and factors, all the pros
and cons, and all sides of the entire issue. By examining all these individual
parts, we can then come up with an objective conclusion that will bring light
to everything we have dissected into separate parts. This will help readers
understand well a complicated issue and make clear a moral reality that needs
an analytical treatment.
Conclusion
If we want to be good at Catholic web content development, then we have to
balance our microblogging with writing full narrations, descriptions,
argumentations, and analyses. Microblogging is good for social networking
purposes. But for writing Catholic articles effectively, we need to develop
an idea, topic, truth, or reality into well-ordered narrations, picturesque
descriptions, credible argumentations, and well-thought-out analyses. It
takes time to be effective in writing on the Web. But practice makes perfect.
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