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Narrative Writing
Narrative writing is key to various tasks that you will engage in during your criminal justice career. You will often be asked to record the events of an incident or to explain your investigative steps for a protocol report. It is essential to know how much detail your readers will need, but in some cases it may be difficult to know how much is too much. You may also read reports with limited details and need to understand the bigger picture, knowing how to use that information effectively.

Practitioner reports and academic reports require different levels of detail and different uses of narrative. The audiences and purposes shift at every level of the criminal justice system, and every position you may hold in your career has a different focus, audience, and purpose. Learning to control the narrative, then, is key so that you can manage your writing at any level of career and for any purpose or audience.

Internet Resources
In preparation for next week's discussion, Draft of Narrative Writing Task, complete the following: 

https://www3.bostonglobe.com/2014/03/22/jared-remy-timeline/RnIJqOgNMk6tryVl1YjATN/story.html?arc404=true

Examine the difficult case presented in the Boston Globe's "Timeline: Jared Remy's Troubled Past."
Peruse the timeline to familiarize yourself with the case.
Using the report narrative from the events of July 24, 2004 as a model, choose another item from the timeline that includes a police encounter (either a traffic incident or an alleged violent or threatening incident—each has been color coded respectively in the timeline) that has not been fully documented with a police report. You will write the narrative for the police encounter based on the notes that are presented in the timeline. Note: You may need to choose carefully to feel comfortable writing up a complete narrative. You can write more than one narrative for this exercise. And you can choose what to include from the notes that are presented to you, but you cannot make up information that is not presented to you. (If you conduct research on the case to fill in gaps in the information to make a more complete report, you must cite in the text where that information comes from; otherwise, it will be assumed that the information comes from this Boston Globe article, which serves as a simulation for our in-class activity and will need to be cited only at the end of your text.) Review the requirements for drafting the narrative writing task in the assignment instructions for the Unit 5 assignment, Final Draft of Narrative Writing Task.