Types of writing 1: Description

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Types of writing 1 Description
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Observation activity

• All the girls

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• All the boys

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What do you see? Who sees a
young woman? Who sees an old
woman?
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Observation

• Sight see, look, watch
• Hearing hear, listen, overhear
• Smell smell, sniff, inhale
• Taste taste, try, eat, drink,
• Touch touch, feel

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Describe what you observefrom your five
senses---Sight ---Hearing ---Smell ---Taste
---Touch
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• Details sell the story
• Mark Twain
• Show, dont tell.
• This means write about less, but write more.

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Differences between information and description

• show what you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch
• the feelings of your body

• tell what you see, hear, smell, taste and touch
• the abstract names of your feelings

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information and description

• Rick had drunk five glasses of whiskey. He was
  driving in his car. He was listening to a song.
  The song started to get faster and faster. Rick
  also started to drive faster and faster. He was
  thinking about having lost his job.

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information and description

• Im as free as a bird now. Rick remembered his
  boss shouting at him in the morning. The guitars
  in his ears started to strum with more speed and
  excitement. Starting to feel the confidence of
  the songand of the five shots of whiskey from
  earlierhe put a little more weight on the gas.

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More examples

• information
• I felt very tired.
• description
• My eyelids felt like they had weights attached to
  them. The teachers voice started to sound like a
  radio played in the distanceeven though she was
  talking to me.

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• information
• I was so angry.
• description
• I started to feel hot. My fingers felt stiff and,
  when I looked down, I saw that I had rolled both
  hands into fists.

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• information
• I loved her very much.
• description
• I would often imagine talking to her. I would
  wake up in the middle of the night, thinking she
  was next to me. Sometimes, I felt my feet want to
  walk toward her.

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• information
• I was very happy.
• description
• I started to feel warm. My shoulders felt loose.
  I stood up easily, smiled at the others, and said
  goodbye in a cheerful voice.

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Description

• Descriptive---to describe
• A person
• A place
• An object
• A scene

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A person

• In an essay you might give your
  reader a detailed, physically vivid account of a
  person.
• not only to give details of ones appearance
• but also to reveal ones character, ones
  thoughts and ones feelings
• Peculiarities and special quality of a person
  impress the reader deeply.

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Description of a person

• Alex was his worn, dirty blue sweater. One
  didnt see him without it, even in hot weather.
  The food stains would appear one by one, to be
  removed all at once in a weeks time, only to
  reappear in different shapes, colors, and places.

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A place

• In an essay you might describe a place
• for its own sake, such as a scenic place
• for revealing
• the personality of a person
• creating a feeling or mood

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Description of a place

• The living room looked like a hospital waiting
  room. I could almost smell the bleach and the
  medicine. From the shiny wood, shiny metal, shiny
  white walls, from the right angles of the pillows
  to the right angles of the papers, from the
  untouched CDs, the carefully placed TV remote,
  rigidly parallel to the DVD remoteI could see
  that the Smiths lived in a state of sterility.

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An object

• In an essay you might describe an object
• by covering its size, shape, color, smell,
  taste, texture, use, relation, and so on
• stressing one aspect only, not all features

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Description of an object

• I loved the Winnie the Pooh watch I
  had when I was a kid. The face of the
  watch had a dark blue background, with white
  stars, and showed Winnie the Pooh in his familiar
  red shirt over his honey-colored fur. Winnie was
  over to the side of the watch a little, and it
  looked like he was holding the hour, minute, and
  second hands in the palm of his own hand. There
  was a little bee on the tip of the second hand,
  and it seemed to fly all the way around the face
  of the watch every minute.

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A scene

• In an essay you might describe a scene by
  visualizing
• the setting
• the people
• the actions
• stressing the most remarkable only , not all the
  details
• the spectacular impresses the reader deeply

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Description of a scene

• On one side, she saw the angry mother. Not
  usually angry, she thought. Whats that shes
  holding? The words in her head received answers
  as she saw the filthy iron frying pan in the
  mothers raised and shaking hand. The floor
  seemed shaking, and she looked longingly toward
  the open window.

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A) Your first time asking sb. to go on a date

• Situation You have a piece of paper with a
  girls/boys phone number written on it. The
  girl/boy gave you this number a few days ago and
  asked you to call her/him sometime. Now is that
  time. You dial the number and hear her/him answer
  the phone.
• Duration 30 seconds from the moment you stop
  staring at the paper and decide to call this
  girl/boy, the moments you spend dialing the
  number, the pause before the call connects, the
  moment you hear the phone picked up, hello?,
  the moment you say who you are, a pause, to the
  moment he/she says the first word in reply to
  you.

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B) Your first time making a big speech in public

• Situation You have a topic, and have prepared a
  speech. Because you are a busy student, you
  didnt prepare so well. You know that, if you are
  confident, you will speak well but if you are
  not confident, you will embarrass yourself. You
  are standing in the middle of a stage, with many
  faces looking at you, waiting for you to say
  something.
• Duration 30 seconds from the moment the
  previous speaker says their last words, the
  moments the people in the room clap for that
  person, the moments you spend walking up to the
  place on the stage where you will stand to speak,
  the moment you look around, the moment you check
  your paper and notice that it looks a little
  different from when you were preparing, the
  moment you look around again at all the faces
  looking at you, to the moment the first few words
  come out of your mouth.