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Descriptive Reading

The document provides guidance and questions for writers to consider when describing a personal experience or instance in detail, in order to help the reader visualize and feel what the writer felt. It prompts the writer to reflect on sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, surroundings, and other descriptive details of the instance from their point of view to help readers mentally picture and emotionally connect with the experience being described. The goal is for the writer to use vivid language and imagery to fully convey the experience and feelings they want readers to understand and share.

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Descriptive Reading

The document provides guidance and questions for writers to consider when describing a personal experience or instance in detail, in order to help the reader visualize and feel what the writer felt. It prompts the writer to reflect on sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, surroundings, and other descriptive details of the instance from their point of view to help readers mentally picture and emotionally connect with the experience being described. The goal is for the writer to use vivid language and imagery to fully convey the experience and feelings they want readers to understand and share.

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Think about the best hamburger you’ve ever

eaten. Describe this experience in detail.


If you don’t eat hamburgers, think of a favorite
sandwich you like and describe the experience of
eating it.
Descriptive Essay
Read in GW Introduction to the Narrative on
Page 58 including the essay “Buck Fever”
How writers use words to create images in your mind
Think of an instance that you want to describe.
Why is this particular instance important?
What were you doing?
What other things were happening around you? Is
there anything specific that stands out in your mind?
Where were objects located in relation to where you
were?
How did the surroundings remind you of other places
you have been?
What sights, smells, sounds, and tastes were in the
air?
Did the sights, smells, sounds, and tastes remind you
of anything?
What were you feeling at that time?
Has there been an instance in which you have felt this
way before?
What do you want the reader to feel after reading the
paper?
What types of words and images can convey this
feeling?
Can you think of another situation that was similar to
the one you are writing about? How can it help
explain what you are writing about?
Is there enough detail in your essayto create a mental
image for the reader?
The plot concerns a previously
domesticated and even somewhat
pampered dog named Buck,
whose primordial instincts return
after a series of events finds him
serving as a sled dog in the
treacherous, frigid Yukon during
the days of the 19th-century
Published in 1903, The Call of the
Wild is one of London's most-read
books, and it is generally
considered one of his best.
Handout –
“The
Football
Experience”
Our Mutual
Friend
by Charles
Dickens
It is the last novel completed by
Charles Dickens and is in many
ways one of his most sophisticated
works, combining deep
psychological insight with rich
social analysis. At one level it
centres on, in the words of critic J.
Hillis Miller, "money, money,
money, and what money can make
of life" but in a deeper sense it also
about 'human values'.
I need two volunteers.
Sit with your backs together.
Person A describes a picture
while person B draws it. The
twist is that A cannot tell B
what the picture is. They can
only use words like “draw a line
half way up your paper,” or
“there’s a dotted triangle
towards the middle of the
picture.

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