Sentence examples for narrative and explanation from inspiring English sources

Gilbert is not only a prolific author; he is also an accomplished writer, so that narrative and explanation read very easily.

Academic discourse performance was considered for both its linguistic and its genre features in two discourse forms: narrative and explanation.

Given strengths in narrative and explanation skills, young bilingual children may not be at risk for academic difficulties that might otherwise have been predicted by their standardized test performance alone.

Indeed, the really fascinating thing about the Minecraft phenomenon is how the community has developed like an early civilisation, with players gradually testing the boundaries of the world together before forming their own rulesets, narratives and explanations.

Each transcript was then scored using a checklist for the presence of genre-specific features of narratives and explanations.

The present study examined the production of narratives and explanations by monolingual and bilingual children for their genre and linguistic features and compared these productions to performance on standardized tests of linguistic features.

The present study examined bilingual and monolingual children's performance on both standardized and discourse-based measures of proficiency (vocabulary, morphology, and syntax) and two academic discourse genres that are related to academic success in the early years: narratives and explanations (Griffin, Hemphill, Camp, & Wolf, 2004; Miller et al., 2006; Tabors, Snow, & Dickinson, 2001).

The pace is (just about) fast enough to keep younger viewers hooked, and anyone old enough to remember 1983 for real is in for a richly enjoyable retro-feast whose cockle-warming abilities make up for (what is for us) a slightly predictable narrative and inadequate explanation of the underlying mythology by the end.

Finally, you must select, organise and deploy a wide range of relevant information to produce consistently well-structured narratives, descriptions and explanations, making appropriate use of dates and terms.

The investigation of this qualitative form of temporal reasoning, and of related sorts of reasoning (e.g., plan recognition, which seeks to infer goals from observed actions, and narrative explanation, which seeks to fill in implicit information in a temporal narrative) is one of the most impressive chapters in the brief history of common sense logicism.

He left it to the viewer to construct a meaning or story, but so situational are the paintings that it is almost impossible to avoid interpreta tion and narrative explanation.