Chapter 10. Descriptive Writing
People use descriptive writing to decorate word and to make their writing more vivid. For descriptive writing, we can use many descriptive techniques such as adding specific information, choosing words carefully, crating sensory images, making comparisons and witing dialogue. I am interested in applying sensory images for essay.
When we read some writing with sensory words, we feel like staying in the place where the author is explaining.
Below is the example of sensory writing.
“ I spent a day at the beach with my friend. Children was playing in the sand. I could hear chatter and laughter of children. There were slight fishy smell. The water tasted like salt water. I felt a heat of sun on back.”
In the Website, I found very simple explanation of descriptive writing. This site was created by TQ22 5th grade team. They say Descriptive writing, sometimes called "showing writing" is writing that describes a particular person, place or event in great detail. Descriptive writing uses a lot of flowery adjectives and adverbs to describe what is going on or how something appears. If you were going to describe biting into an apple, you would not simply say: "He bit into the apple and it tasted good". Descriptive writing would convey the same sentence as follows: "He slowly closed his teeth on the ripe, succulent, ruby colored apple. The crunch of his teeth piercing the apple's skin was deafening and the sweet juices of the apple ran down his chin. The taste of the meat was as sweet as candy and he felt euphoric."
References:
http://library.thinkquest.org/J001156/forms%20of%20writing/em_descriptive.htm
Tomkins, G. E. (2008). Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
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