The Sunday News
AS stated earlier being on holiday does not stop you from learning. Learning takes place anytime.
Moving along visiting your relatives anywhere you can learn a lot of things. Writers get ideas from what they do, see, hear, taste or smell. This means all the senses are involved in all learning activities.
You do not get ideas to use in your learning from urban centres only. People of the old school never used to spend a lot of time in urban areas. They passed through cities on their way home in rural areas.
The good part they passed their examinations. There was no outcry that going home to partake in household chores would make them fail. The only advice you can get is put your eyes on the deck and focus on what you are doing.
As a sequel to the article on descriptive writing and narrative writing here are some additional points to consider and use.
You can be asked to choose a person to describe – this is one option of a topic you may be asked to choose. In such a situation you describe a person that knows well.
This could be a family member like your mother or father. It could be a close friend or a co-worker. Choose a person that you have a lot to write about so you have enough material for the essay. You could also choose a fictional person to write about, such as a character in a book, a story, or a play.
You can write a character in your favourite Television show or video games. Pick a place or object to, describe. Another option is to focus on a specific place or object that you have a strong feeling about. This could be a place like your high school, your work place or your childhood home. You could also choose a more specific emotion such as brotherly love or self-hatred. These emotions can make for powerful descriptive essays
Include sensory details. Make a list of sensory details about the topic. Once you have chosen the essay topic, draw five columns for the five senses, touch, sound, taste and smell. Write as many details as you can think of for the topic based on such senses.
The first step in writing a descriptive essay will lay the groundwork for the entire piece. Follow these steps chronologically: choose a topic, create a statement, get the senses right, create an outline, revise your essay, finish it up.
A descriptive essay should create a vivid picture of the topic in the reader’s mind. Use strong description. Writers use the descriptive essay to create a vivid picture of a person, place or thing.
Unlike a narrative essay which reveals meaning through a personal story, the purpose of a descriptive essay is to reveal the meaning of a subject through detailed sensory observations.
The descriptive essay employs the power of language and all the human senses to bring a subject to life for the reader. Keep in mind the most important watchword of writing a descriptive essay is show, do not tell. One of the best ways to show is to involve all the senses – not just sight, but also hearing, touch, smell and taste.
Write so the reader will see the sunset, hear the song, smell the flowers, taste the pie or feel the touch of a hand.
Use descriptive and figurative language as well as concrete images to describe the subject, similes and metaphors work as well.
The effect of the word on the audience – the effect that a word has on its audience is part of the meaning of the word. A word can have different meanings for different people and in different situations.
Understanding the effects that your words have will help you make better choices when you write. When you look at specific words, the English language for an example, is full if general nouns and verbs. The word house is a general noun that could refer to any number of specific dwellings: a brick row house, an apartment house, a split level, a prefab, an adobe hut, a mobile hut, a farm house.
General hands tend to weaken your writing because they call up only a vague picture in your reader’s mind. Take, for example, the sentence, “I went to the store,” Is it a video store, a hardware store, a grocery, a deli, or a boutique? Even the verb went could be more specific- did the speaker walk, run, dash, meander, fly? Maybe the speaker rode the bus or drove.
We are reminded that simple sentences can be improved by changing parts of speech. For example, a simple sentence like: He entered the room can be improved by changing the subject as we; as the verb and object to read Peter ran into the bedroom.
We have explained how Peter entered the room. We now know that the room us the bedroom. Who entered the room? Peter entered the room.
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