to fill the left end of the room. Stuffed under the desk is a woven wastepaper basket overflowing with paper and debris. The wall above the bookcase and desk is completely
taken up with two small posters. On the right hand side of the room is narrow closet with clothes, shoes, hats, tennis racquets, and boxes building out of its sliding doors. Every time I
walk out of the door, I think “Now I know what it is like to live in a closet”. Quoted from : Marina K. Bune Carol ; Writing : 1973.
3. Describing an Object.
If we want to describe an object. The best way to describe an object accurately is providing the physical characteristics of an object such as : the site, the shapes, the form, and
the colors. Therefore the writer will easily describe all the picture of the object. For example :
Our backyard is dominated by a huge old live oak tree. The base of the trunk measures approximately ten feet around. The thick muscular trunk rises solidly for about
eight feet and then separates into four main branches. From these, the lower branches spread out horizontally over the ground, reaching into neighbors’ yards. The main branches continue
to rise, up and up, where they compete with each other for air and sunlight. From these heights, the neighborhood cardinals and blue jays sing to each other, keeping a sharp eye out
for cats. As the birds sway in the wind , they look as if they are riding a sip across a gently swelling ocean. From these heights, too, it is easy to see the variety of shrubs and sweet
smelling flowers lining the two long sides of our rectangular yard, the small walkway along the back of the house, and the back fence that runs along the alley. Quoted from : Marina K.
Bune Carol ; Writing : 1973.
3.1 Description of Paragraph
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A complete text may consist of a single paragraph, but on the whole paragraph usually belongs to a large text type such as an essay or report. However, David Jolly 1983:
130 says that a paragraph is regarded as a complete at the micro textual levels it is valuable to treat the writing of them as a whole activity.
A paragraph may be defined as a group of sentences that develops one main ideas, in the order words, a paragraph develops a topic. A topic is basically the subject of the
paragraph. A paragraph is made up three major structural parts, a topic sentence, supporting
sentence and concluding sentence Oshima and Hogue, 1983: 3. 1. The Topic Sentence.
The topic sentence usually is the first sentence in the paragraph or the second paragraph, following a transitional sentence because the writers usually want their
readers to know from the start where the paragraph is going and the writer wants to keep their readers attention, an opening topic sentence should be as precise and as
interesting possible. Then, Barli Bram 1995: 16 says, topic sentence must have a subject and attitude. In
order words, it consists of a topic sentence must have a subject and restricting statement. The subject tells us what to writer while the attitude shows or gives reasons
for writing. A topic sentence which has no attitude is like a dead, boring conversation. Having no attitude, we have no clear, interesting, useful information to inform the
readers. We may conclude them that the topic sentence is a summary o all information in the paragraph.
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2. Supporting Sentences. Once have taken notes and formulated a controlling idea about the topic, the next step
is to extract from our notes the material we can use to develop the paragraph. This material will be used a support for the opinion or attitude expressed in our topic
sentence. It serves to back up. clarify , illustrate, explain or prove the point, we make in our topic sentence. We used factual detail may be fact from resources materials,
such as magazine, journal, books or the details may include things that we or other have to serve. Basically, supports come from the information we used to arrive at the
view we have expressed in our topic sentence. When we are examining our notes to find support for pure the topic sentence, we may find it necessary to add material to
our notes. 3. Concluding Sentences.
After finishing writing supporting sentence, generally the paragraph is ended by concluding sentence. This sentence tells the readers that the writing is finished.
A concluding sentence has three main purposes : a. It summarizes the main point of the paragraph.
b. It gives the final comment on the topic and the readers with the most important ideas to think about.
c. It signals the end of the paragraph.
3.2 Kinds of Paragraph
