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4 Use specific details that contribute to an implied topic sentence or
support a stated one. Most writing involves description. Descriptive writing is used in all
modes of writing Expository, Narrative, and Persuasive to create a vivid and lasting impression of the person, place or thing.
www.booknutsreadingclub.com. Here, there are three scopes of Descriptive writing. They are:
1 Description of a place.
2 Description of a person
3 Description of a thing
2.3.1 Communicative purposes
The notion of shared communicative purpose is central to most ideas of genre. It is the communicative purpose that influences the formation of genres
Nieminen 2004: 4. The purpose provides the rationale for a genre and exerts a constraining influence on what it typically contains and how it is written. The
purpose of writing is actually dealing with communication. “When we write, we intend to interact with our readers using written
language as in writing spoken language; our principle purpose is to make the readers understand.” Barli 1995: 25.
Hartono 2005: 7 says that “descriptive writing has a purpose to describe a particular person, place, or thing. It vividly portrays a person, place, or thing in
such a way that the reader can visualize the topic and enter into the writer’s
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experience. Hence, it is obvious that we must have a purpose when we write something and we have a specific purpose of writing a descriptive text that is to
show the readers about descriptions of certain person, place or some other things.
2.3.2 Language Features
In the book entitled Genre Based Writing, Hartono 2005: 9 explains that there are some language features that we should understand in writing
Descriptive text. They are: 1
Focus on specific participants. 2
Use of attributive and identifying processes. 3
Frequent use of epithets and classifier in nominal groups. 4
Use of simple present. According to Murphy 1985: 215 we use simple present tense to talk
about things in general. We are not only talk about everything happens now. We use it to say something happens all the time and repeatedly.
Frank 1972: 66 states that simple present tense could be used as the following things such as:
1 To express a habitual action using some adverbs such as usually,
always, often, etc. Example: The children usually play football in the afternoon.
2 To state a general truth
Example: The sun shines from the east
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3 To express future action by using some verbs of movement or travel
such as come, go, leave, stay or arrive. 4
To express commentaries on games and plays Example: He takes the shuttlecocks and ends it high above the net.
2.3.3 Generic structure
