c. Description
Give a detail description about person, place, and thing. By giving detail information about description of person, place, and thing, the reader is persuaded
to adventurous with their imagination.
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Criteria of Descriptive Writing: a.
Focus on specific participants b.
Use of attributive and identifying processes c.
Frequent use of epithets and classifiers in nominal groups d.
Use of simple present tense.
3. Types of Descriptive Text
In descriptive writing, students can describe anything which exist around them, depend on their purpose; whether they want to describe about place, person,
or object, the following categories are:
a. Description of place
To describe about place, students should describe the scene vividly so that the readers can imagine every single part of the place being described and not merely
give the details but also smell the smells and hear the sound that involved in it.
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To make clearer, the example is as follow: Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is a large performing art place. It becomes an Australian icon. It was established in 1973. It is located in Sydney, New South
Wales, Australia. The Sydney Opera House covers 1.8 hectares of land. It is 183 m long and
about 120 wide. The building can load 25,000 people. The Opera House is a place for large theatrical productions. It is the home
of Opera Australia, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphonyan. There are five theatres in Sydney Opera House. There are also five
rehearsal studios, two main halls, four restaurants,
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Sanggam Siahaan Kisno Shinoda, loc. cit.
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Regina L. Smalley and Mary K. Ruetten, Refining Composition skills: Rhetoric and Grammar, Fourth Edition, Boston: Heinle Heinle Publishers, 1995, p. 62.
six bars, and many souvenir shops. The design of the Opera House is very unique. The roof looks like giant shells.
Besides for theatrical productions, the Opera House is also used for other functions. It is used for weddings, parties, and conferences.
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b. Description of object
In describing the object, students can describe as a whole and include its purpose or significance. By describing the object as real as possible, readers are
interested in imagine the object in front of them. Example of descriptive text in describing an object:
Maciwoda Robot Maciwoda robot is the latest innovation of Japan technology. It is a kind of
robot, which can replace the works of house servant in daily lives. It is 5.5 feet height and weight 100 pound. It is not very heavy so that every user can take it
anywhere. This model is designed to be mobile. Whenever, wherever we need it, it always ready to do everything for us. The most advantageous thing we can
reach is that we don’t need to think of how much we will pay forbecause it doesn’t need salary. This innovation is equipped with a sound sensor name
“Braino”, which is located within its head. This apparatus is very small and is designed to be the most essential thing because it functions as the brain of the
robot. Whenever we utter an order, this apparatus will respond our order and do
what we want. “Hando” is the part which is like human’s hands. It is designed as a unique model, resembles to our hands. It is 100 cm length and standardized to
resemble to humans. This part is equipped with “iron fingers” to hold something and the most prominent is its wrist can be changed into the various types as broom
to sweep and mop to mop the floor. It is also equipped with air freshener. When
we think of it, we refer to the foot, which is called “Foota” as the part to prompt up its body. It is a flexible part and it is designed to be 200 cm length. The
materials to form “Foota” are iron and aluminum. “Foota” is flexible for outreach places. It can be lengthened to reach ceiling and shortened to reach the places
under. It is also equipped with wheels and is able to step up or step down ladder.
c. Description of person
