Controlled Writing Guided Writing
In addition feature is grammatical feature of a description. Factual description usually include the following grammatical features: a verb in the
present tense, b adjective to describe the features of the subject , and c topic sentence to begin paragraph and organize the various aspects of the description.
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Other hand Fi nk assumed, “Writing description has purpose, this following
element to write and reading description there are : 1. Concrete details.
A concrete detail is a specific description that support, reflects, or expands a w
riter‟s attitude purpose. Examples: The modern math student, using a calculator instead of
a slide rule, make speedy and accurate calculations. 2. Images.
An Images is a concrete, literal real, actual description of a person, physical object, or sensory experience that can be known
through one of
the five senses sight, sound, taste, touch and smell. Examples
Lighting crackled and sizzled across the darkened sky sound and sigh
3. Similes A simile is a comparison, using like or as, between two objects.
The comparison is between two things essentially different yet similar in one aspect.
Examples Anger heated up in me like water about to boil.
4. Metaphors. A metaphor is an implied indirect comparison between two
things without the use of like or as. 5. Connotative language.
Connective words or phrases imply or suggest meaning different from their dictionary definition; they may carry a positive
favorable, good or negative unfavorable, bad meaning.
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From definition above the writer concluded description is the kind of writing used to bring the reader into the picture, for examples by telling the
readers something strike the sense, how it looks, smells, sound, feels even
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Mark Anderson and Kathy Anderson, op.cit.,p.26.
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Lila Fink et al, Text For Writing and Reading, Boston: Little Brown and Company , 1983, pp. 41-42.
sometimes how it tastes. Description writing uses concrete language to portray the characteristic of object.