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6Describing: Media and Popular
Culture
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Learning Outcomes
• Identify real world applications for writing a description.
• Understand the steps for writing a description.
• Interpret images and descriptive readings about media and popular culture.
• Analyze the rhetorical star for description.
• Apply the steps for writing a description.
33Real World Applications (LO 6.1)
• School– Describe what
you observe in a lab.
– Journaling about an activity
– Describe a subject’s traits
• Daily Life– Describing a new home or business– Describing an insurance
claim
• Career– Describing a patients symptoms– Descriptions of menu items– Descriptions of criminals, crimes, and
sentences.
44Steps for Writing Description (LO 6.2)
• Create a dominant impression.
• Use an objective or subjective approach.
• Appeal to the senses.
• Include similes and metaphors
• Organize your description logically
• End with something memorable
55The Rhetorical Star (LO 10.4)
Subject• Choose a subject you can observe or
know well.
• Write about things that catch your
interest.• Pick something interesting, exciting, unique,
or unusual.
66The Rhetorical Star (contd.)
Purpose• Consider what you want to accomplish
with your description.
• Determine the dominant impression
you are trying to create.
• Keep your purpose in mind at all times.
77The Rhetorical Star (contd.)
Audience• Know your readers.
• Determine your readers’ interest about
the subject.
• Select the details that would be most appealing to your specific audience.
88The Rhetorical Star (contd.)
Strategy• Determine if other writing
strategies are needed. Description is commonly a supporting strategy.
• Consider what additional information may be necessary. Have you appealed to a variety of the reader’s senses?
99The Rhetorical Star (contd.)
Design• Decide upon the needed
length to describe your subject keeping your audience in mind.
• Determine if graphics or other design elements are needed.
• If visuals are included make sure they don’t overshadow your words.
1010Applying the Writing Process (LO 10.5)
Discovering• View a variety or readings, images, and
other media.• Go somewhere scenic.• Focus on sensory details.• Make a sketch, describe a scene to
someone, or do a free-write.
1111Applying the Writing Process (contd.)
Planning• Create a list of adjectives you would
like to use.• Decide upon the order which you wish to
present your details.• Use a cluster diagram, an outline, or a
graphic organizer.
1212Applying the Writing Process (contd.)
Composing• Write a first draft.
• Don’t focus on grammar or punctuation.
• Keep the steps for descriptive writing in mind.
• Focus on concrete sensory detail.
Getting Feedback• Have a peer read your rough draft.
• Utilize the peer review questions if possible.
• Get a second opinion, if possible.
1313Applying the Writing Process (contd.)
Revising• Make sure your description is full of specific sensory detail.
• Make sure you have created a clear dominant impression.
• Avoid vague language.
Editing• Read your essay again.
• Check for grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
• Watch out for sentence fragments.
1414Applying the Writing Process (contd.)
Proofreading• Read your essay at least one more time.
• Look for typographical errors.
• Make final corrections, again watching out for sentence fragments.