Welcome back. And we are on strategy six presentation. And we're under technique to show human characteristics through action and dialogue. And usually this is in fiction, but it can also be in nonfiction For example, I will have my students write personal narratives, usually personal conflict narratives where though right about maybe a particular personal experience that they've gone through where they went through some kind of conflict, and something about it changed them or their point of view about something significant in their life. And so what I would make sure that they did in those situations was show the reader key moments where things shifted, and instead of just telling us what happened, I would have them show us the human characteristics, relationships, dialogue, action, I would show that through the actions and the dialogue, instead of telling the reader it's better to show that through the actions and dialogue because it's explicit It it once again is efficient and uses word economy and you're not beating the reader over the head in a way that maybe not insult their intelligence but it's over obvious in some way, and so sure human characteristics through action and dialogue.

The explanation here, often showing characteristics and action and dialogue is more effective than telling through exposition. Like I said, this applies to fiction and nonfiction in many cases. While showing instead of telling isn't always best, it does hold true in most fiction and creative nonfiction works like narrative with character, action and dialogue. An example of that comes from a piece that I wrote about my grandmother a few years ago. Grandmother never showed affection directly, but she doted on her grandchildren, and that one is obviously telling instead of showing its exposition, once again, I'm not Same to never use exposition never tale. Sometimes it is actually effective depending on the situation.

But quite often it's overused and it's sort of the cheaper, easy way out instead of using the showing technique through the action. And so here is the correction to this and it gives us more storyline it tells us more about the complexity of this particular woman. We often strolled at nightfall as the lightning bugs blinked traffic, homed and cicadas called grandma never came when we loaded in the car with pop off or fried chicken at KFC or hamburgers at crystals. But sometimes she went with us to Kmart and stuffed cash into our hands bought us ice and told us to buy all the My Little Ponies or Pam puppies we wanted. She gave us bubbles matching baseball uniforms and candy and sodas, smiling as we played under the magnolia tree. And so in that situation, we can see that she might not have hugged I served smiled at us all the time.

But she showed us in her own unique way that she loved us and that she enjoyed our company and that she wanted to make us happy. And so those concrete images are very easy to see. And it flushes it out for what my grandmother's like versus what your grandmother or somebody else's grandmother might do. That might be different if she wasn't an affectionate person, in the sense that she gave a lot of hugs or said I love you a lot. She might show it in a different way. And so another grandmother might cook for her grandchildren, or she might, you know, she might send care packages or it might just be different for each grandmother in different ways.

And so, that is technique to under presentation. And that is just to remember to show human characteristics through action and dialogue show human characteristics through action and dialogue and that applies to both fiction and nonfiction.