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Assignment: Descriptive paragraph Write a descriptive paragraph using one of the below topics or a topic of your own. Document must follow MLA formatting guidelines. Suggested topics: A famous person A favorite place An unusual person A friend or family member A work of art Your room Your favorite article of clothing A building or statue Your car, truck, or bike Something you would like to have An accident scene (more topics on pg 125) Description paragraph checklist: ___Does your topic sentence state the paragraph’s main idea? ___Do all of your details support your topic sentence? ___Are your details specific enough to give readers a picture of your subject? ___Have you used appropriate transitional words and phrases? ___Have you proofread for spelling, grammar, and punctuation? 1Description paragraph guidelines A description paragraph creates a vivid impression of what you have heard, seen, smelled, tasted, or touched. When you write description, you focus on appealing to the reader’s five senses. The more specific details you include, the better your description will be. A descriptive paragraph contains the following elements: • • • • A topic sentence that states the main idea of your paragraph. The topic sentence is followed by details that support the topic sentence. Details are arranged in spatial order, the order in which you observed the scene you are describing—for example, from near to far. The paragraph ends with a concluding statement that sums up the paragraph’s main idea. Vague, overused words -- such as good, bad, nice, awesome, and beautiful – do not help readers see what you are describing. When you write a descriptive paragraph, use specific words and phrases that make your writing come alive. Also, be careful not to overdo it: overly descriptive writing can be a turn-off to readers. Prepositions—words that signal a space or time relationship—figure prominently in descriptive writing. Below list of the most common prepositions can be used as transitions in descriptive writing. aboard about above across after against along amid among anti around as at before 1 behind below beneath beside besides between beyond but by concerning considering despite down during except excepting excluding following for from in inside into like minus near of off on onto opposite outside over past per plus regarding round save since than through to toward towards under underneath unlike until up upon versus via with within without Kirszner, Laurie, and Stephen Mandell. Foundations First with Readings, 4th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012. Print. Model Descriptive Paragraphs By Richard Nordquist, In the following paragraph, observe how the writer moves clearly from a description of the head of the clown (in sentences two, three, and four), to the body (sentences five, six, seven, and eight), to the unicycle underneath (sentence nine). Notice also how the concluding sentence helps to tie the paragraph together by emphasizing the personal value of this gift. 1) A Friendly Clown On one corner of my dresser sits a smiling toy clown on a tiny unicycle--a gift I received last Christmas from a close friend. The clown's short yellow hair, made of yarn, covers its ears but is parted above the eyes. The blue eyes are outlined in black with thin, dark lashes flowing from the brows. It has cherry-red cheeks, nose, and lips, and its broad grin disappears into the wide, white ruffle around its neck. The clown wears a fluffy, two-tone nylon costume. The left side of the outfit is light blue, and the right side is red. The two colors merge in a dark line that runs down the center of the small outfit. Surrounding its ankles and disguising its long black shoes are big pink bows. The white spokes on the wheels of the unicycle gather in the center and expand to the black tire so that the wheel somewhat resembles the inner half of a grapefruit. The clown and unicycle together stand about a foot high. As a cherished gift from my good friend Tran, this colorful figure greets me with a smile every time I enter my room. 2) The Blond Guitar by Jeremy Burden My most valuable possession is an old, slightly warped blond guitar--the first instrument I taught myself how to play. It's nothing fancy, just a Madeira folk guitar, all scuffed and scratched and finger-printed. At the top is a bramble of copper-wound strings, each one hooked through the eye of a silver tuning key. The strings are stretched down a long, slim neck, its frets tarnished, the wood worn by years of fingers pressing chords and picking notes. The body of the Madeira is shaped like an enormous yellow pear, one that was slightly damaged in shipping. The blond wood has been chipped and gouged to gray, particularly where the pick guard fell off years ago. No, it's not a beautiful instrument, but it still lets me make music, and for that I will always treasure it. 3) Gregory by Barbara Carter Gregory is my beautiful gray Persian cat. He walks with pride and grace, performing a dance of disdain as he slowly lifts and lowers each paw with the delicacy of a ballet dancer. His pride, however, does not extend to his appearance, for he spends most of his time indoors watching television and growing fat. He enjoys TV commercials, especially those for Meow Mix and 9 Lives. His familiarity with cat food commercials has led him to reject generic brands of cat food in favor of only the most expensive brands. Gregory is as finicky about visitors as he is about what he eats, befriending some and repelling others. He may snuggle up against your ankle, begging to be petted, or he may imitate a skunk and stain your favorite trousers. Gregory does not do this to establish his territory, as many cat experts think, but to humiliate me because he is jealous of my friends. After my guests have fled, I look at the old fleabag snoozing and smiling to himself in front of the television set, and I have to forgive him for his obnoxious, but endearing, habits. The following paragraph opens the third chapter of Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Knopf, 1976), a lyrical account of a ChineseAmerican girl growing up in California. Notice how Kingston integrates informative and descriptive details in this account of "the metal tube" that holds her mother's diploma from medical school. 4) The Magic Metal Tube by Maxine Hong Kingston Once in a long while, four times so far for me, my mother brings out the metal tube that holds her medical diploma. On the tube are gold circles crossed with seven red lines each--"joy" ideographs in abstract. There are also little flowers that look like gears for a gold machine. According to the scraps of labels with Chinese and American addresses, stamps, and postmarks, the family airmailed the can from Hong Kong in 1950. It got crushed in the middle, and whoever tried to peel the labels off stopped because the red and gold paint come off too, leaving silver scratches that rust. Somebody tried to pry the end off before discovering that the tube falls apart. When I open it, the smell of China flies out, a thousand-year-old bat flying heavy-headed out of the Chinese caverns where bats are as white as dust, a smell that comes from long ago, far back in the brain.
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