Week 2

Patterns of Paragraph
Development in Writing :
Description
 Objectives:
1. Define descriptive writing;
2. Describe the characteristic of an effective
descriptive paragraph; and
3. Write descriptive essay observing the
guidelines in paragraph writing.
What is Descriptive
Writing?
 Descriptive Writing
It is used to describe place, people,
objects, events, using appropriate details;
 Description
Writers use vivid descriptions, to make
their writings more lively and interesting,
and indicate their attitude towards the
subject
 Descriptive Writing
an effective description contains
elaboration of details to communicate the
meaning of the subject being describe.
 Descriptive Writing
Descriptive writing applies to the five
senses, so it tells how something looks,
feels, smells, tastes, and/or sounds.
They are known as sensory details.
DESCRIBE
ME!
 a good description is a
term that the readers can
imagine in his/her mind.
 Description may be objective
or subjective.
 OBJECTIVE
is informative and factual and it
appeals to the intellect;

aims primarily to present word pictures

of a person, a scene, or an object
 SUBJECTIVE
used blended with exposition or
narration as in creative writing.

it stimulates the imagination, appeals to

the emotions, and gives pleasure as well.
 SUBJECTIVE
is colored by the writer’s personality –
feelings, moods, likes, dislikes, judgments,
and interpretations.
 a description usually follows a
pattern of organization which is
called spatial order
In composition, spatial order is an
organizational structure in which details are
presented as they are (or were) located in
space—from left to right, top to bottom, etc.
Also known as order of place or space
structure, spatial order describes things as
they appear when observed.
 Topic Sentence
topic sentence is the most important
sentence in a paragraph; while
controlling idea gives an overall
impression of the place that the author
or the writer is describing.
TOPIC SENTENCES AND CONTROLLING
IDEAS
Every topic sentence will have a topic and
a controlling idea. The controlling idea
shows the direction the paragraph will
take.
Examples:
1. My bedroom at home is my refuge from
the outside world.
2. The campus of our school is like a small
city.
3. The cafeteria at lunchtime is the school's
social center.
topic tells your audience what the
paragraph will be about and connects
to the thesis.
controlling idea tells them how you will
explain it in this particular paragraph.
 Supporting Sentence
serve as the “meat” of the paragraph;
make your writing exciting and interesting.
In a descriptive readers will clearly
imagine the subject that you are
describing.
 a good paragraph has the
characteristics of unity, coherence
and emphasis.
 Unity
is a unit of composition that established
oneness because it develops a central
and main idea on its structure; and
must be unified on its structure.
 Coherence
is considered as the continuity;
arrange and link the sentences between
the paragraphs to be able to make the
readers follow the thought or the idea
that want to be implied.
 Emphasis
composition in which the important
ideas are made to stand.
Share you
thoughts
T h a n k y o u !