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    Descriptive writing aims to illustrate experiences for readers through sensory details and imagery. It presents vivid descriptions of people, places, events, feelings, and thoughts to give readers a sense of actively participating in the story. Descriptive details help develop an overall dominant impression or theme. Writers use tools like thesauruses to generate similar descriptive words to create unity while maintaining variety and focus. Descriptive writing provides texture to stories by showing rather than telling through sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and emotions to help readers visualize elements of the story.

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    Descriptive writing aims to illustrate experiences for readers through sensory details and imagery. It presents vivid descriptions of people, places, events, feelings, and thoughts to give readers a sense of actively participating in the story. Descriptive details help develop an overall dominant impression or theme. Writers use tools like thesauruses to generate similar descriptive words to create unity while maintaining variety and focus. Descriptive writing provides texture to stories by showing rather than telling through sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and emotions to help readers visualize elements of the story.

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    Descriptive writing aims to illustrate experiences for readers through sensory details and imagery. It presents vivid descriptions of people, places, events, feelings, and thoughts to give readers a sense of actively participating in the story. Descriptive details help develop an overall dominant impression or theme. Writers use tools like thesauruses to generate similar descriptive words to create unity while maintaining variety and focus. Descriptive writing provides texture to stories by showing rather than telling through sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and emotions to help readers visualize elements of the story.

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    Descriptive Writing

    Descriptive writing provides an illustration of people, places, events, situations, thoughts, and
    feelings. Description presents sensory information that makes writing come alive. It expresses an
    experience that the reader can actively participate in by using imagination.

    Descriptive details aid in developing the overall dominant impression. The dominant impression
    is a basic idea or theme that the writer wants to express from the complexity of the story’s
    construction. A city, for example, can be described as exciting or scary depending on carefully
    chosen words, or from a subtly crafted mood. A thesaurus will help to achieve this. It lists a variety
    of words with similar meanings or connotations. Use the thesaurus to generate a word bank of
    comparable words that will help to develop “unity with variety.” This means the writing is focused
    and interesting because it has a dominant impression.

    Descriptive writing provides literary texture to a story. Texture shows rather than tells. A writer
    shows the reader through the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, as well as through
    emotional feelings. Descriptive details enable the reader to visualize elements in the story. Vivid
    adjectives and active verbs help the writer to develop specific sensory descriptions.

    For example:

     The woman on the beach watched the sun set over the ocean. TELLS
     Shades of neon illuminated the edges of clouds, backlit by the sizzling sun that slipped beneath a cerulean sea.
    SHOWS

    Notice that sentences that TELL tend to be direct. They are objective. Sentences that TELL record
    verifiable facts as a scientist or journalist might. Sentences that SHOW are subjective; they may be
    influenced in part by the writer’s personal experiences. Sentences that SHOW create mental images,
    and elicit emotional response.

    To develop description think about what observations could be made, for example, when walking
    down a city street. How could the writer describe the smells of food coming from vendor’s carts?
    How would the food taste? Being specific paint a literary picture with your words.

     Is the food spicy? Does it drip with grease?


     Does steam rise up from the cart?
     Does shade spill across the street?
     Does sunlight sparkle on a skyscraper’s windows?

    Consider what might be heard by a character who exists in a particular setting like this busy city. Do
    police sirens shriek? In a restaurant, do wine glasses clink? Specific words create the experience of
    the sound.

    Fill the scene with motion using active verbs. Make the city setting spring to life. Rather than say,
    the waitress is busy, consider if she might spin in every direction serving the requests of her
    customers in a crowded restaurant? Does she crash into the deliveryman in the back of the kitchen?

    What do characters say audibly, as well as in their thoughts? The reader comes to know the moods
    and personalities of the characters through expressive dialogue. Do the characters speak their
    dialogue in a whisper or demanding shout? Do they bristle their words?
    Practice: Look around the Tutoring Center. What do you…?

    SEE HEAR SMELL TOUCH TASTE MOOD

    Use a thesaurus to
    find comparable
    alternative words

    Dominant = + + + + + +
    impression

    Brainstorm ideas for your assignment: What do you…?

    SEE HEAR SMELL TOUCH TASTE MOOD

    Use a thesaurus to
    find comparable
    alternative words

    Dominant = + + + + + +
    impression

    BCCC Tutoring Center Rev. 7/2010

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