Story Structure for Effective Writing
Explore different types of story structures like IMRaD and OCAR to craft engaging narratives. Learn how to address larger questions, challenges, actions, and resolutions in your storytelling. Enhance your article structure by focusing on unique and interesting information.
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Writing Guide: Different types of story structure: IMRaD: Intro, Methods, Results & Discussion OCAR: Opening: Topic? What is the larger question that this story addresses? Challenge: What s your question? Action: How do you address the challenge? Resolution: How is our understanding of the world different after this story?
Writing Guide: Different types of story structure:
The structure they chose: OCAR: Opening: Topic? What is the larger question that this story addresses? Challenge: What s your question? Action: How do you address the challenge? Resolution: How is our understanding of the world different after this story? The structure they ended up with OCAR: Opening: microRNAs background Challenge: How are microRNAs sorted? Background that sort of pertains to question Action: A bunch of info from many research papers More background that sort of pertains to question Resolution: (very short) microRNA sorting is important to understanding microRNA repression overall
What I would do to change the structure of article Cut out some of the trite info/background and focus more on the specific, interesting, unique info (see pdf)
