c. Description of People
The last kind of descriptive writing is about the description of people. The people may be the favorite artists or idol, parents, or many other people that a
writer want to describe about them. In describing people, there are many appearance features that can be described like their face, hair, color of hair,
clothes, skin, and body shape. however, we do have to mention about every single detail about the people appearance. It is just important to focus on one or two
striking features that convey something about the person’s character. The example of descriptive writing about a person is as follow:
My mother My mother is a beautiful person. She is not tall but not short, and she
has curly hair and brown hair. Her eyes color are like honey and her color skin color light brown, and she has a beautiful smile. Her weight is
120 lbs.
She is a very kind person. She is very lovely, friendly, patient, and she loves to help people. I love my mom, because she is a good example
to me. She loves being in the Church, and she loves sing and dance too. She is a very good child, wife and mother. She always takes care of
her family. She likes her house to be clean and organized. She a very organized person, and all things in the house are in the right place. She
doesnt like messes.
She always has a smile on her face. She is so sweet and lovely. I like when I am going to sleep or when I wake up or when I am going to go to
some places, she always gives me a kiss, and when the family have a problem she always be with us to help us and to give us all her love.
C.
Mind Mapping Technique
Mind Mapping is a simple technique for drawing information in diagrams, instead of writing it in sentences. It is a tool that helps students recalling and
creating new ideas when they want to write.
1. Concept of Mind Mapping
Mind Mapping was developed by world-famous brain power expert Tony Buzan
26
. He is an education specialist of English Language, Math, and science from the University of Columbia, England. Mind mapping is a visual tool used to
organize and relate themes or objectives. Buzan asserts that mind maps that incorporate pictures and different colors bring ideas to life. A good mind map
shows the overall structure of the topic or problem and lines and pictures.
27
Mind Map is a way to make a creative and effective of note-taking, and it can generate the ideas. In other words, Mind Map defines as a highly effective
way of getting information in and out of your brain. Mind Map using colors and picture to help use your imagine and your way to draw mind map, with the words
or the pictures that in a lines or branches will help your memory to make association.
28
Bill Lucas stated in his book: Power Up Your Mind ―Mind Map is a way of visualizing thought”.
29
Miller states on his book ―Motives for writing‖ that mind mapping sometime called clustering or webbing is a way of visually
analyzing the part of the subject. ―
30
According to Michael Michalko in Buzan 2008 mind mapping is an alternative thinking of brains toward linear thinking. Mind map is a powerful
graphic technique and become a universal key to unlock the potential of the entire
brain, because using all the skills contained in the neo-cortex of the brain or
better known as the left brain and right brain. Based on the statement, it is clearly stated that mind mapping helps students to use their brain as good as possible.
They can easy to get information and remember it.
26
Tony Buzan, Barry Buzan, The Mind Map Book, London: BBC Worldwide limited, 1993, p. 1.
27
Joanne M. Tucker, Gary R. Armstrong, and Victor J. Massad, Profiling a mind map user: a descriptive appraisal. Journal of Instructional Pedagogies.
28
Tony Buzan, Buku Pintar Mind Map, Jakarta: PT. Gramedia, 2008. P. 20
29
Bill Lucas, Power Up Your Mind, London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2001, p. 123.
30
Miller R.K., Motives for Writing fifth edition, New York: The McGraw Hill- Companies, 2003, p.11.
Kategori