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Week 2 Patterns of Paragraph Development in Writing Description 1

The document outlines the objectives and characteristics of descriptive writing, emphasizing its appeal to the senses and the importance of sensory details. It distinguishes between objective and subjective descriptions and discusses the significance of topic sentences, controlling ideas, unity, coherence, and emphasis in paragraph development. The document also highlights the organizational structure of spatial order in descriptive writing.

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Week 2 Patterns of Paragraph Development in Writing Description 1

The document outlines the objectives and characteristics of descriptive writing, emphasizing its appeal to the senses and the importance of sensory details. It distinguishes between objective and subjective descriptions and discusses the significance of topic sentences, controlling ideas, unity, coherence, and emphasis in paragraph development. The document also highlights the organizational structure of spatial order in descriptive writing.

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Patterns of Paragraph

Development in Writing :
Description
WEEK 2
Objectives:
01 Define descriptive writing;

02 Describe the characteristic of an


effective descriptive paragraph; and

03 Write descriptive essay observing


the guidelines in paragraph writing.
What is
Descriptive
Writing?
Descriptive Writing
"Descriptive writing appeals to the
senses, allowing readers to visualize
scenes, hear sounds, feel textures, and
even experience tastes and smells,
fostering a deeper connection to the
text" (Langan, 2014).
Descriptive Writing
It is used to describe place, people,
objects, events, using appropriate
details;
Description
"Description is the text that provides
details about how something looks,
sounds, feels, tastes, or smells, offering
the reader a clearer picture or deeper
understanding of the subject" (Kane,
2000).
Description
Writers use vivid descriptions, to make
their writings more lively and
interesting, and indicate their attitude
towards the subject.
Descriptive Writing
an effective description contains
elaboration of details to communicate
the meaning of the subject being
describe.
Descriptive Writing
Descriptive writing applies to the
five senses, so it tells how
something looks, feels, smells,
tastes, and/or sounds.
They are known as sensory details.
a good description is a term that
the readers can imagine in his/her
mind.
Description may be objective or
subjective.
OBJECTIVE
is informative and factual and it appeals to
the intellect;
aims primarily to present word pictures of
a person, a scene, or an object
SUBJECTIVE
used blended with exposition or narration as in
creative writing.
it stimulates the imagination, appeals to the
emotions, and gives pleasure as well.
is colored by the writer’s personality – feelings,
moods, likes, dislikes, judgments, and
interpretations.
a description usually follows a pattern of
organization which is called spatial order
In composition, spatial order is an organizational
structure in which details are presented as they are
(or were) located in space—from left to right, top to
bottom, etc. Also known as order of place or space
structure, spatial order describes things as they
appear when observed.
Topic Sentence
topic sentence is the most
important sentence in a
paragraph; while
controlling idea gives an overall
impression of the place that the
author or the writer is describing.
TOPIC SENTENCES AND CONTROLLING
IDEAS
Every topic sentence will have a topic and
a controlling idea. The controlling idea
shows the direction the paragraph will
take.
Examples:
1. My bedroom at home is my refuge from
the outside world.
2.The campus of our school is like a small city.
3.The cafeteria at lunchtime is the school' s
social center.
4. My best friend has a personality that lights up every
room.
5. The library is a peaceful place where I can focus on my
studies.
topic tells your audience what the
paragraph will be about and
connects to the thesis.

controlling idea tells them how you


will explain it in this particular
paragraph.
a good paragraph has the
characteristics of unity,
coherence
and emphasis.
Unity
is a unit of composition that
established oneness because it
develops a central and main idea on its
structure; and
must be unified on its structure
Coherence
is considered as the continuity;
arrange and link the sentences
between the paragraphs to be able to
make the readers follow the thought or
the idea that want to be implied.
Emphasis
composition in which the important
ideas are made to stand.
"Description begins in the writer's
imagination but should finish in the
reader's."

Stephen King
Thank you for
attentive listening!

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