优选Description英文写作

Types of description
❖ Objective description---record details without making any personal comment.
❖ Subjective description---the writer is free to interpret details for the reader/ audience.
General and Specific Words for Good Description
❖ Specific words help to make writing clear, exact, vivid, and striking, for they are more informative and expressive than general words. Compare:
❖ A description essay is generally developed through sensory details, or the impressions of one’s senses---sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch,etc.
❖ Leave out the irrelevant ones and keep those which help to bring out the dominant characteristic or outstanding quality of the person or thing described. (sample 1)
❖ a good man ❖ kind, honest, just, generous, sympathetic, warm-
hearted, selfless, brave, honorable ❖ good food ❖ tasty, delicious, nourishing, rich, wholesome, fresh,
Note: Few descriptions outside of science writing, however, are completely objective.
Ways to develop a description essay
❖ Through the impressions of one’s senses--sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch
General and Specific Words for Good Description
❖ General: It is often windy and dusty here in spring. Specific: In spring there is often a very strong northwest wind. It carries so much fine dust with it that sometimes the sun becomes obscure. There is no escape from the fine dust; it gets into your eyes, your ears, your nostrils, and your hair. It goes through the cracks of closed windows and covers your desks and chairs.
❖ Using spatial order: describing the physical layout of the place(left>right, bottom> top, clockwise/counterclockwise, inside>outside)
❖ Using chronological order ❖ Use specific words ❖ Decide on the dominant impression
❖ Practice ❖ Eg. Laugh :smile, grin, chortle, guffaw, sneer, titter,
giggle…… ❖ Cry: sob, weep, blubber, snivel, howl, bawl, wail, moan,
❖ Animal: ❖ Flower : ❖ Wind : ❖ Rain ❖ Tree : ❖ Walk: ❖ Angry: ❖ Look at: ❖ ……
Description
❖ Description is the type of writing that helps the reader to see what someone/some place/something is like.
❖ Or we may say description is painting a picture in words of a person, place, object, or scene.
appetizing, abundant ❖ House ❖ mansion, villa（别墅）, chateau（庄园）, cottage,
bungalow（平房）, cabin, hut, shack, shanty, barn(仓 房）
General and Specific Words for Good Description
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Contents
❖ Definition of description ❖ Types of description ❖ Ways to develop a description essay
❖ Description of a place ❖ Description of an object ❖ Description of a person ❖ Assignment