Most of students after finishing their writing into several paragraphs, they do not recheck of what have written. They have to repair some mistakes or errors,
from the grammatical structure and accuracy.
B. Descriptive Text
1. Definition of Descriptive Text
As many students and writers know that, a descriptive writing is a text that provides a description about persons, places, andor things. Students describe the
person, place and thing by using the words; hence, they have to describe them as vivid as possibl
e in order to appeal the reader’s senses. To make the readers are interested to read a descriptive text, it has to contain the details information which
may lead readers’ five senses; seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching. Related to the definition of descriptive text, according to John Langan, descriptive
text is a text which describes someone or something by using words. To convince the readers, in a descriptive text the picture put as real as possible, students have
to give a description just like as the real object and it is possible to make the readers can capture the object by five senses, namely sight, hearing, tasting,
smelling, and touching.
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Descriptive text is not only just to tell something, but also to show something, to see profoundly what is going on.
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Therefore, descriptive text needs the vivid description about person, place, and object. The more writers describe a person,
place, and thing; the clearer a descriptive text is described due to the writers try to zoom in their topic by using specific and details information. These details
information will bring the readers to open their five senses smelling, seeing, hearing, touching, and tasting and
those five senses become a part of the writers’ experience.
Yet, as stated by Nancy McHugh that descriptive writing is merely limited to the concrete object,
“Descriptive deals with the concrete. In this domain a student
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John Langan, College Writing Skills with Readings, New York: Mc-Graw Hill Company. 2001, p. 175.
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Dennis E. McGuinnes and Lauren Spencer, Writing to Describe, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2012, p. 5.
tries to present a picture in words, one so vivid that the reader or listener can recapture many of the same perceptions and feelings that the writer has had.
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” In contrast, a descriptive writing allows student to write any kind of topic either in
which about a concrete object or an abstract object because it can be better that students can be stimulated their abilities to capture an image or picture of object
as real as possible into the words and makes it appeals the readers’ five senses.
Similarly with Shinoda which claim ed, “Description is a written English text in
which the writer describes an object. In this text, the object can be a concrete or abstract object; it can be about any topic.
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” Thus, from the definitions which are explained, the writer concludes that
descriptive text is a text about description of people, places and or things which want to be delivered into the words by student and it is possible to appeal the
readers’ senses; seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and tasting. Descriptive writing is not merely to show something or someone to the readers but also
through descriptive, students can build the readers’ mind to imagine an object in their mind and make the abstract object which is described more concrete.
2. The Schematic Structure of A Descriptive Text
