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MODULE 2

Patterns of Development in Writing:


DESCRIPTION

When we write paragraphs, we tend to recreate an imaginative representation of the ideas


that we have acquired and assimilate. These paragraphs extend our vision in a written form.
Words and group of words became a circulating body of invisible objects ready to be digest by
another entity of interpretation and representation.
Description is one pattern of paragraph development that paints pictures with words and
brings the action or scenes to the reader. It appeals to the senses -smell, taste, hear, sight, and
touch through the imagination of the readers. It builds mental images for the reader; it makes
present what is absent. – Source: Prentice Hall, Grammar and Composition 3

To write a good description you should learn to observe keenly and accurately. Your eyes
gather visual images; your ears gain auditory images, and your mouth forms taste images.
Behind the sense organs is the mind which selects important details and allows unimportant
details to go unheeded.
Successful description demands a special technique depending upon the purpose of the
description. If you want to tell what a house looks like, use objective or factual and scientific
description. It describes the scene as it is and stays away from emotional expression. Thus, “The
house is painted blue, spacious, and Mediterranean style”. If you want to give the effect the
house has on you, your description will be subjective or suggestive and imaginative. This kind of
description is based on opinion, emotion, and the author’s own perception of a subject. It also
looks at how one sees something and wants something to be seen. “The house looks refreshing
and exciting for the beauty of its location”. The purpose of your description gives your work
unity.
Descriptive writing should always contain strong, specific details. Features such as color,
size, texture, shape, and condition should be expressed clearly and sharply in action verbs,
precise nouns, and colorful adjectives. Descriptive writing conveys a dominant impression
through specific details, sensory impressions, and figures of speech. The central dominant
impression is the focus of topic sentence that occur commonly at the beginning of a descriptive
paragraph. It helps the reader in understanding the text for it sets the scene. It also provides a
preview of what the story will be. It also persuades the readers to continue reading.
The supporting details to the central dominant impression are the senses of sights, smells,
sounds, textures, and feelings commonly known as sensory impressions. It helps in developing
an absent things or ideas in the mind of the readers. The beauty of linking one idea to another
using figures of speech to provide dramatic exchange of events and experiences add to the
totality of the story. When we talk about figures of speech, we tend to recall commonly used in
any paragraph development in writing. Simile is a comparison of two things through the use of
“like” or “as”. Metaphor is a direct comparison of two things. Personification is the use of human
characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas.
Suggestions for Writing Using the Descriptive Pattern
1. Decide on a particular topic. It can be a person, place, experience, or even objects that
has an impact on you and you can deliberately discuss and explore it.
2. Think and formulate your dominant impression and start drafting a statement.
3. Consider your secondary purpose in writing your paragraph. It can be to deliver
entertainment or just to inform your readers on a particular topic.
4. List down many details and sensory impressions as you imagine your particular topic.
Bank different vivid descriptions that will help you explore your dominant impression.
5. Organize the flow of your sentences trying to imagine how your readers can
understand your point and be familiar with your topic.
6. Consider the involvement of your reader’s emotions. It is there that you can be
successful in conveying your goals in writing a descriptive pattern.
7. Revisit your draft for consistency of tense, emotions, mood, and the strength of your
words’ vividness and its unity in the dominant impressions that you presented.

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