DESCRIPTIVE

DISCOURSE
 WHAT IS A DISCOURSE?
• Discourse is any written or spoken
communication. Discourse can also be
described as the expression of thought
through language. While discourse can refer
to the smallest act of communication, the
analysis can be quite complex.
• Types of Discourses: Argumentative, Narrative, Descriptive, Expositive,
Persuasive and Cause and Effect
 WHAT ARE DESCRIPTIVE
DISCOURSES?
• Descriptive Discourses are a form of communication that relies on the
five senses to help the audience visualize something. They enable the
audience to develop a mental picture of what is being discussed.
• The Formats of Descriptive Discourses includes:
Journals
Poems
Stories
Biographies
 CHARACTERISTICS OF DESCRIPTIVE
DISOURSE
• Good descriptive writing includes many vivid sensory details that paint a
picture and appeals to all of the reader's senses of sight, hearing, touch,
smell and taste when appropriate. Descriptive writing may also paint pictures
of the feelings the person, place or thing invokes in the writer.
• Good descriptive writing often makes use of figurative language such as
analogies, similes and metaphors to help paint the picture in the reader's
mind.
• Good descriptive writing uses precise language.
• Good descriptive writing is organized.
 PURPOSES OF DESCRIPTIVE
DISCOURSES
• The purpose of a descriptive discourse is to:
Entertain
Illustrate
Explain
Describe
Expose
Highlight
Visually present information
Invent
 ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES
USED IN DESCRIPTIVE DISCOURSES
• Organizational Strategies are the language techniques used to convey a
certain idea to the reader. These Organizational Strategies include:
Comparison
Contrast
Description
Time Sequence
Illustration
The use of spatial words (above, below, around and so on)sense words
(sight, hearing smell taste, touch),adjectives, literary devices
(metaphor, simile, personification)
 THE END
Group 2
Javier Palmer
Ryan Mullings
Delroy Forbes
Roshane Daley
Jodeen Blake
Omelia Johnson
Tameka