102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chocolatier, Antique Car, Amazing Red
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Describing is a way to say what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing. Description is about sensory experience how something looks, sounds, tastes. Mostly it is about visual experience, but description also deals with other kinds of perception (kane, 2000). In descriptive writing, the author does not tell the reader what was seen, felt, tested, smelled, or heard. Rather, he describes something that he experienced and, through his choice of words, makes it seem real. In other words, descriptive writing is vivid, colorful, and detailed. The primary purpose of descriptive writing is to describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader"s mind. Capturing an event through descriptive writing involves paying close attention to the details by using all of your five senses.
