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Descriptive Writing



In this file you will learn about and practice writing descriptive paragraphs. Descriptive paragraphs are one of the four basic types of paragraphs: descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive. Read the definitions below.

Four Types of Paragraphs

1. Descriptive: Descriptive writing contains sentences that work together to present a single, clear picture of a person, place, thing, or idea. Often authors use their senses (sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste) in writing a description.

2. Narrative: Narrative writing tells a story. The author creates a story for the reader by telling about a series of events in the order in which they happened.

3. Expository: Factual writing explains ideas, gives facts, provides directions, or describes a process. Expository writing is used when you wish to present or explain facts or ideas.

4. Persuasive: Persuasive writing tries to get the reader to agree with the writer about the paragraph's topic, which is usually an opinion. The writer expresses an opinion and, using information and arguments, attempts to convince the reader that the opinion is correct.

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Descriptive Writing creates an impression of something the writer has experienced through the sense of sight, hearing, smell, touch, or taste.

Read the information outlined below, and then write a descriptive paragraph about the topic. Write the paragraph as if you witnessed the event. The topic sentence is done for you.

On a trip to China in March of 1977, I witnessed the impact of the largest meteorite ever recovered.

a. weighed 3,902 pounds
b. broke into several pieces
c. landed near some homes but no one was hurt
d. made a hole in the earth six meters deep and two meters wide
e. sounded like a sonic boom
f. saw a grayish flash
g. created a mushroom-shaped cloud of yellow smoke and dust

Use the facts listed above as the basis for your eye-witness account of the event. Remember to use all the strategies for paragraph writing that you have learned. Make sure your paragraph is interesting and that it reflects your own words and ideas and not just the words in the outline.

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Rewrite/Edit

Go back through your writing and make sure you have all of these:

1) a topic sentence that is specific and not too broad

2) supporting sentences that develop, explain, and support the topic sentence

3) a summary or concluding sentence that holds the paragraph together by restating the main idea or drawing a conclusion


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