Descriptive Writing: September 14

- Description versus Explanation




- The teacher was angry when he walked into the room.

Try using a thesaurus




- Sensory Descriptions
The lemon was sour. -------->
Her/his lips were soft. --------->
The wind felt cold. --------->
His voice was terrible. -------->
The soup smelled strong. -------->
The Dankook hill is high. -------->



A functional outline consists of brief statements about how each sentence functions within an essay; the purpose of writing a Functional Outline is to focus on how a writer develops coherence in a piece. Functional outlines may be written either in the margins of the essay itself or on a separate sheet of paper, such as the Functional Outline Worksheet below:

Steps For Writing a Functional Outline:

1. How many paragraphs are in the essay? _____

2. What is the main point of the entire essay? ______________________________________________________________________________


3. Look at each paragraph: Paragraph One: Main Point: ____________________________________________________________________

Function of Each Sentence:

a) ____________________________________________________________________________

b) ____________________________________________________________________________

c) ____________________________________________________________________________

DO THIS FOR EACH PARAGRAPH IN THE ESSAY

4. In the space below, indicate the function of each paragraph in the essay:

Paragraph #1 _______________________________________________________________

Paragraph #2 ________________________________________________________________

Paragraph #3 ________________________________________________________________

Paragraph #4 ________________________________________________________________