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Yang, Han Prince Jhomyson S. Curativo, Clinton M. Alcayde, Armel Floro, Jundike Phey Gadiano, Earl Sanchez, Jerick

The Descriptive Paragraph

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JOHN HAINES, FROM SNOW

Snow blows across the highway before me as I walklittle, wavering trails of it swept along like a people dispersed. The snow peoplewhere are they going? Some great danger must pursue them. They hurry and fall, the wind gives them a push, they get up 7/30/12 and go on again.

Outline of the Report

Objectives of this report What is a DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH? Photography Presentations Summaries

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Objectives of the Report

Find your particularly REASONS for writing descriptive essay To inform a reader about something (place, event, object, subject) To understand, make and construct correctly a well-versed descriptive essays To share an experience, give a detailed reporting and entertain a reader thru writing this type of paragraphs

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Refreshers Tools You Need

What are the things you need to know to construct a good descriptive paragraph?

Definition of sensory details a paragraph

Construing

Deciding of a topic sentences up a set of supporting sentences of a clinching sentence

Building

Concluding

How

to choose a topic for making a descriptive paragraph

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Adjectives

Definitions of Sensory Details

They are details that appeal to the five senses: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling. They help descriptions come alive in the readers mind. By
By Sense Sense of ofBy Taste: Sense Sight: of Taste Touch: (n.) Sight (n.) To Feel taste To see By Sense of Smell: By Sense Smell of (n.) Hearing To 7/30/12 : smell

Sensory Clues

What do you see? What do you hear ? What do

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Construing a Paragraph

Topic Sentence it names your topic. It is the first sentence in the paragraph. Supporting Sentences include the details of the topic. They use sensory details to describe the person, place, thing, or event. Closing Sentence it ends the description. It is the last sentence in the paragraph. 7/30/12

My Grandmother An Example
My grandmas name is Wanda, but I call her Nana. She has short, white hair. Her hair was blonde when she was younger. She likes to wear green and white dresses. She has a fun, loud laugh. She makes Thanksgiving dinner for us
7/30/12 every year. She has strong arms and likes to

How to Choose a Topic Sentence?

List details of what he or she looks like, sounds like, and likes to do. Use these details to write a descriptive paragraph about your person. Think about interesting people you know. Think about favorite places youve been.
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Adjectives Making English Beautiful

Anadjectiveis a 'describing' word; the mainsyntacticrole of which is toqualifyanounornoun phrase, giving more information about the object signified Adjectives are one of the traditional eightEnglishparts of speech, thoughlinguiststoday distinguish adjectives from words such asdeterminersthat were formerly considered to be adjectives. 7/30/12 In this

How to be more specific?

A pairSpecified running More of shoes Original Idea shoes Some jewelry Some money My desk Things Souvenirs Vegetables
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What is a Descriptive Paragraph?

Descriptive writing uses sensory details to paint a mental picture of a person, place, thing, or event. You describe a place, a thing, or a person. The writing is logical not chronological. The sentences and details are arranged according to where the 7/30/12 objects described are located.

Things to Consider

In order to understand and clearly describe a person, place, things, animal or place, you might consider this:
Age Nationality Gender Physical Hobbies Behavior,

Characteristics etc.

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Photography

What is her name? How old is she? Where was she born? How would you describe her hair? What would you describe her eyes? What is she wearing? What is her favorite hobby? Why?
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Photography (Descriptive Paragraph)

Meet my friend, Sara, and she is 18 years old. She lives in Cebu City. Her hair is blonde-black and her eyes are dark. She is wearing red dress and gold earrings. Her favorite hobby is obviously, modeling, because she dreams to be a famous model someday.

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Photography

What is his name? How old is he? Where was he born? How would you describe his hair? What about his eyes? What is he wearing? What is his favorite hobby? Why?
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Photography (Descriptive Paragraph)

This is my uncle, Dirk Nowitzki. He was born on June 19, 1978; making him almost 34 years old. He was born in Germany. His hair is a little bit shaggy and his eyes are bluish. Not only that, he is wearing a blue jersey. He loves playing basketball as well as dancing ballet.

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How would you describe this?

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How about another one?

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Useful Use of Descriptive Paragraph

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Useful Use of Descriptive Paragraph

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Useful Use of Descriptive Paragraph

First Draft: [Collecting Ideas]

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Useful Use of Descriptive Paragraph

Third Draft:(chang e all verbs to present tense active verbs) [High School Level of Ideas] An old skinny mansitsalo ne in an open field. His dusty and tattered hat quietlyrests on his rounded head. Thin, grey straw-like hairspoket heir way from

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Useful Use of Descriptive Paragraph

Many college courses such as literature, composition, history, psychology, ecology, and biology use description. As you study these courses, you will read descriptions of historical places, influential people, natural elements, and scientific experiments. In addition, you will write descriptions to learn or demonstrate what you have learned.

DESC RIPTI ON in Your Acad emic Cours es

Student writer Jean Powell composed the following

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Useful Use of Descriptive Paragraph

Paseo Del Rio: A Festival of Color and Light

FORM AL (1) The Texas spirit of fun and respo hospitality lights up Paseo Del Rio, the San Antonio nses Riverwalk. (2)

This festive and popular travel destination shimmers with color and light. (3) Along the left bank, two lines of brightly colored caf umbrellas tropical red, Cancun blue, emerald green, lemon yellow shelter outdoor diners and adorn the cobblestone walk. (4) Above the rainbow rows

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BONUS (Detonations and Connotations)

Connotations Detonations Connotationrefer Denotationrefers s the dictionary toto the emotional suggestions definition, or the related to a word. literal meaning of aword. Example:

Example: we have That girl

seen girl is mall is That in the somewhat suffering from anorexic in size anorexia disorder. and figure.
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