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Does Golding use more subjective or objective descriptions? List these examples in your journal. Choose an Essay Topic and Begin Brainstorming: Essay One: Write an essay describing for your classmates some of the junk you have collected over the years. Why are certain items junk to some people and treasures to others? What makes the things you are describing special to you? Answers to these questions should not only be clearly told, but should become clear in your essay through your choice of diction, sensory details, sentence structure, and use of figurative language. Essay Two: Describe the inside of your house, apartment, or room, explaining to your class what the decorations say about you as a person. If someone in your class were to see where you live, could he or she make any accurate deductions about your political, social, or moral values based upon the contents and arrangement of the place you call home? Answers to these questions should not only be clearly told, but should become clear in your essay through your choice of diction, sensory details, sentence structure, and use of figurative language. Write Your Essay: Essays must be typed in MLA format and be approximately two pages in length (double spaced). TONIGHTS HOMEWORK: Huts on the Beach analysis and Step 1 of the writing process: Brainstorm for your essay. Come into class with a web, list, or outline to showcase your brainstorming. Introduction to Writing Descriptions Brought to you by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab at  HYPERLINK "http://owl.english.purdue.edu" http://owl.english.purdue.edu Because description is a mode we use in many pieces of expository writing, we sometimes find difficulty in imagining a purely descriptive essay. In a narrative, for example, description can make the setting of characters more vivid; in a process paper it can insure that the audience understands the finished product. Regardless of how we use description, it is easy to see that it strengthens an essay considerably. Principles Students often ask, But how do I write a purely descriptive essay? Whats the point of description? Whats so different about it? There are three characteristics of a purely descriptive essay which are worthy of remembering. A descriptive essay has one, clear dominant impression. If, for example you are describing a snowfall, it is important for you to decide and to let your reader know if it is threatening or lovely; in order to have a dominant impression it cannot be both. The dominant impression guides the authors selection of detail and is thereby made clear to the reader in the thesis sentence. A descriptive essay can be objective or subjective, giving the author a wide choice of tone, diction, and attitude. For instance, an objective description of ones dog would mention such facts as height, weight, coloring and so forth. A subjective description would include the above details, but would also stress the authors feeling toward the dog, as well as its personality and habits. The purpose of a purely descriptive essay is to involve the reader enough so he or she can actually visualize the things being described. Therefore, it is important to use specific and concrete details. Conventions The descriptive essay relies on concrete, sensory detail to communicate its point. Remember, we have five senses; be sure to appeal to a few of them. The author of a descriptive essay must carefully select details to support the dominant impression. In other words, the author has the license to omit details which are not in line with the dominant impression unless the dominant impression is one which points out the inconsistencies. Description very often relies on emotion to convey its point. Because of this, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives convey more to the reader than do nouns. Unless the description is objective, you must be sure that the dominant impression conveys an attitude. Strategies Try giving all the details first; the dominant impression then is built from these details. Check your details to be sure that they are consistent with the dominant impression. You might even want to write down the five senses on a scratch piece of paper and check to see that you have covered them all. Try moving your reader through space and time chronologically. For instance you might want to describe a train ride from start to destination, or a stream from its source to the point at which it joins the river. Use a then-and-now approach to show decay, change, or improvement. The house where you grew up might now be a rambling shack. The variations on this strategy are endless. Select an emotion and try to describe it. 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