1 / 11

The Descriptive Report

The Descriptive Report. Descriptive reports are all about facts – not opinions. They often have a bad rap for being boring, but they don’t have to be!. Your introduction is important for a few reasons: Tells the reader what your report is about Sets the tone of your report Hooks the audience.

kim
Download Presentation

The Descriptive Report

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Descriptive Report

  2. Descriptive reports are all about facts – not opinions.

  3. They often have a bad rap for being boring, but they don’t have to be!

  4. Your introduction is important for a few reasons: • Tells the reader what your report is about • Sets the tone of your report • Hooks the audience

  5. Boring descriptive reports start like this: “My descriptive report is about forest rangers. I’m going to talk about Tony Green, his job, and how to save our forests. ”

  6. Exciting descriptive reports start like this: “For weeks there had been no rain and the woods were drier than he had ever seen them. Forest ranger Tony Green was called in to help – fighting fires is only one way this exciting job helps to preserve our forests.”

  7. Here are a few more introductions….

  8. More than any other state, Hawaii is world famous for its beauty and pleasant climate. This is probably why Hawaii, the “Aloha State,” is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world, and why I would love to visit this state someday. Besides being a great place for tourists, though, Hawaii is also a great place to live and has over one million residents.

  9. Can you imagine hearing the howl of a wolf during the night? A while ago you could hear howls in northern Wisconsin, but the wolves were driven out. They were killing livestock for food, so ranchers really hated them. The federal government assisted the ranchers in eliminating the wolf population up through the 1950's.

  10. Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise beams you aboard. As your molecules come back together, he gives you a tour of the spotless flight deck. It’s filled with clean crew members working on equipment that’s all in perfect shape. That’s TV. The Russian Mir space station is reality, and life there isn’t glamorous. Mir astronauts are more like the early pioneers who risked their lives but kept going and made their mission a success.

  11. A Few Things to Remember about Descriptive Reports • Begin with interesting opening sentences that tell what the description is about • Be specific, not vague • Elaborate • add more details and expand your ideas • Use vivid vocabulary • strong nouns, verbs, and adjectives • Put details in time order, spatial order, or in order of importance

More Related