WK3 DESCRIPTIVE WRITING

• Descriptive writing

  • describes places, people, objects, or events using appropriate details.
  • uses a variety of sensory details
• Description:

  • Makes writing more lively, interesting, and indicates writer’s attitude toward the subject through the choice of words details.
• Diction

  the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
• Sense of Sight

  • Visual details, are incorporated into writing. It transmits mental images to the mind of the reader.
• Sense of Smell

  • Olfactory details can help set the mood of what is written and trigger the reader’s other senses.
• Sense of Hearing

  • Hearing details can make something dramatic. When the writer puts sounds into words, the reader hears what the characters are experiencing.
• Sense of Taste

  • It is a personal sense so it is a little less important in most fiction writing.
• Sense of Touch

  • Tactile details motivate readers to discover the world around them by feeling and learning the texture.
• 2 Kinds of Description

  1. Objective: Informative and appeals to the intellect
  2. Subjective: Artistic and literary; appeals to the emotions
• Objective

  ⮚Science books, tourism brochures, police records, official files and classified ads.
• Subjective

  ⮚Colored by the writer’s personality – feelings, moods, likes, dislikes, judgments and interpretations.
• A topic sentence is the most important sentence in a paragraph.
• The controlling idea is the main idea that the writer is developing in a composition. The controlling idea usually expresses a definite opinion or attitude about the topic of the composition. 
• Guidelines to build effective descriptions into paragraphs:

  • Include only relevant details.
  • Keep the description focused
  • Make sure that the description fits the paragraph’s tone and point of view.
• Spatial order

  • A description usually follows a pattern of organization
  • It is the arrangement of items according to their physical position or relationship.