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Descriptive Writing

Descriptive Writing. EAP 1640 Advanced ESL Composition. What Kind of Writing . Objective Subjective The role it plays will vary. Exposition – when you want to explain an event or how something works or what you think about a particular place, person, or idea. Focus on subject

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Descriptive Writing

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  1. Descriptive Writing EAP 1640 Advanced ESL Composition EAP1640 Advanced ESL Composition

  2. What Kind of Writing • Objective • Subjective • The role it plays will vary. EAP1640 Advanced ESL Composition

  3. Exposition – when you want to explain an event or how something works or what you think about a particular place, person, or idea. Focus on subject Clear description achieves this Persuasion – focus is on reader, person whose mind you want to change. Purpose EAP1640 Advanced ESL Composition

  4. Audience • If your audience is general, such as your classmates – your assumptions about them are more general. • You fill in gaps for readers with descriptive details. • What do they know? EAP1640 Advanced ESL Composition

  5. Tone • How you want the reader to feel about the subject. • This is your attitude toward the subject and audience. • Compare examples from text. EAP1640 Advanced ESL Composition

  6. Details • Make us see what the writer is describing. • Concrete words – words used that can be easily visualized. • Abstract words – not easily visualized. May hold different meanings for different people. EAP1640 Advanced ESL Composition

  7. Comparison • Useful in description to make it more vivid to readers, especially when describing sensory images. • Produce arresting image, explain the unfamiliar. Make a connection with the reader’s own experience, or reinforcing a major point in an essay. • Compare the unfamiliar to the familiar. EAP1640 Advanced ESL Composition

  8. How are comparisons made? Metaphor – direct equation Simile – comparison with ‘like’or ‘as’ EAP1640 Advanced ESL Composition

  9. Allusion- indirect reference to a real or fictitious person, place, or thing. Analogy- extended metaphor EAP1640 Advanced ESL Composition

  10. Cliches – overworked comparisons Slow as a turtle Red as a rose EAP1640 Advanced ESL Composition

  11. Diction • Words chosen by writer which determine whether the description is more objective or subjective • whether it’s tone is factual or impressionistic. EAP1640 Advanced ESL Composition

  12. Thesis • May be: • implicit or • explicit • Main point • What the writer builds the essay on EAP1640 Advanced ESL Composition

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