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Descriptive Writing
What is descriptive writing?
Descriptive writing usessensory details to paint amental picture of a person, place, thing, or event.
What are sensory details?
• They are details that appeal to the five senses: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling.
• They help descriptions come alive in the reader’s mind.
How do I choose a topic for a descriptive paragraph?
• Think about interesting people you know.• Think about favorite places you’ve been.• Think about an object you know a lot about.
Invitation to Read
• Read the following descriptive paragraph.
• See if you can find all the sensory details.
• Can you find the topic, body, and closing sentences?
My Grandmother
My grandma’s name is Suriya, but I call her “Nano.” She
has long, white hair. Her hair was brown when she was
younger. She likes to wear green and off white dresses. She
has a fun, loud laugh. She makes Thanksgiving dinner for us
every year. She has strong arms and likes to give big hugs.
Nana is the greatest.
Invitation to Write
• List three people you know well.• Choose one to write about.• List details of what he or she looks like, sounds like, and likes
to do.• Use these details to write a descriptive paragraph about your
person.
In descriptive writing you usually know about your theme. Even you have the place person or thing in your mind which you are going to describe.
There are two main problems
• How the description can be made interesting
• How points can be arranged in order
Describing a person
• General impression of the person e.g• my best friend is a girl with blond hair and blue
eyes• Describe the physical feature or outlook like the
way he walks, clothing or manners.• Characters or qualities• Why you like or dislike the person or to quote
his/her doings.
Look for significant details
• There is something about person which gives us a hint to his character. There night be something in his cloth, the different way he speaks, his untidiness, or his wrinkled face, a look in his eyes, yellow teeth or pale face. Try to find and describe minute details in his personality which help the reader to imagine the person you are describing.
Exercise 1
• Describe somebody’s look
• Describe somebody’s hair
• Describe somebody’s typical voice
• Describe somebody’s untidy dressing
• Describe somebody’s way he walks.
Describing a place
• A place can be describe from the center of the place and work outward or start from the perimeter and work towards the center. One method is following:
• Give a short description af the place e.g. Aisha lives in a village between hill and river.
• Then describe the place working towards from most important point.
Writing a Descriptive Descriptive
Essay
Purpose:Purpose:
• To inform a reader about something (place, event, object, subject…)
• To To shareshare an experience. an experience.• To give a report.• To entertain a reader.
Requirements:Requirements:What should it look like?
Requirements:Requirements:What should it look like?
• Strong sensory details (sight, touch, taste, hearing, feelings, thoughts…)
• Main idea/topic followed by supporting details and descriptions.
• Clear organization.
• Effective transitions.
The great thing about
Descriptive writing is that you get to choose what the topic is
going to be and what details you want to include!
The great thing about
Descriptive writing is that you get to choose what the topic is
going to be and what details you want to include!
You can…
• Describe an event that happened to you.
• Take the reader to a place.
• Teach the reader about something you know.
• Report on a subject/object of your choice (monkeys, planes, weather, volcanoes, historical events…)
Take the reader to a place with your words!
Take the reader to a place with your words!
• Present your ideas in order as they happened or in a pattern that makes sense to the reader.
• Set a mood (suspense, calm, exciting…)
• Make the reader get a mental picture of what you are talking about.
Major Hints!
What Next?
• 1) Find a topic that you want.• 2) Read about it so that you are an expertexpert in
the area. • 3) Take notes so that your details are freshfresh
and accurate.• 4) Think of ways to write that will keep
your audiences attention (cool facts, humor, astonishing details…)
• 1) Find a topic that you want.• 2) Read about it so that you are an expertexpert in
the area. • 3) Take notes so that your details are freshfresh
and accurate.• 4) Think of ways to write that will keep
your audiences attention (cool facts, humor, astonishing details…)
What Next?
• 5) Write your drafts in order and keep on the topic.
• 6) Get ready to share your essay with your classmates by rehearsing what you’ve written.
• 5) Write your drafts in order and keep on the topic.
• 6) Get ready to share your essay with your classmates by rehearsing what you’ve written.
What is a topic sentence?
• The topic sentence names your topic.• It is the first sentence in the paragraph.
What are the body sentences?
• Body sentences include the details of the topic.• They use sensory details to describe the person, place,
thing, or event.
What is the closing sentence?
• The closing sentence ends the description.• It is the last sentence in the paragraph.
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