Welcome to Week 4. The focus for this week and next is an exploration of descriptive writing. We will discuss description and what it helps us do. We will compare passages written on the same topic, and will read several essays in our Patterns For College Reading Text that are descriptive. We will read texts paying careful attention to their use of sensory description using writing strategies of adjectives, adverbs and adverbial phrases; figurative language, to enhance description. We will write about an object two ways: subjectively and objectively. We will also engage in a variety of writing exercises to fine tune our use of description to see how it adds vigor, specificity, clarity and concern to writing. We will produce two longer pieces of descriptive writing as well as engage in several activities to make dull, boring language more descriptive as we gain more appreciation of the genre.
What is Description and Why Should Writers Use It? Period 4
Period 5 link: What is description? Why/How Do Writers Use it?
Period 6 link: What is Description? Why/How do writers use it?
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