Of the key elements to writing, POV is the most clearly and easily defined. It is also, I think, one of the more difficult elements to master. Professor Novakovich gives a good lecture - a detailed discussion of 1st Person and 3rd Person POV, as well as brief comments on other much less common narrative viewpoints.

    "All other POVs spring from this mother of all POVs." "  - Josip Novakovich, on 1st Person

Exercise 2: Describe the following event in the third-person subjective POV: stealing a fake gold ring in a department store. Focus on the thief. Describe the same event in the third-person limited flexible POV. Again focusing on the thief. The latter POV should have both external narrated descriptions as well as internal character observations. (2 pages)