The purpose of descriptive writing is to make our readers see‚ feel‚ and hear what we have seen‚ felt‚ and heard. Whether we’re describing a person‚ a place‚ or a thing‚ our aim is to reveal a subject through vivid and carefully selected details. Each of the five paragraphs below responds‚ in its own way‚ to the guidelines in How to Write a Descriptive Paragraph. The writers (three of them students‚ two of them professional authors) have selected a belonging or a place that holds special meaning
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ERROL WYNSTAN A. RODRIGUEZ August 15‚ 2012 2012-09086 ENG 1 WFX2 2:30-4:00 pm DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY THAT LUSCIOUS SALAGUBANG My father is a small time farmer whose taste for exotic foods has been proverbial. Each month‚ he has a list of rare recipes he used to boast about. For example‚ last January‚ he caught a big monitor lizard which he cooked into a very aromatic adobo. I never tried to imagine myself the secrets of his cooking and the condiments that thrilled
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was as healthy as a young doctor. It was now summer of 2010‚ and I was ready for a family vacation. A ride to Rio Frio River is like a flight to a Caribbean getaway. Our plan was to stay in this meager town called Usvalde. As we drove through city after city‚ it became apparent that the world around us was changing. As each city brought new surroundings‚ our anticipation builds‚ and our dream vacation seemed closer and closer. Arriving into San Antonio we begun to notice changes. The trees appeared
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International Journal of Transformations in Business Management http://www.ijtbm.com/ (IJTBM) 2012‚ Vol. No. 1‚ Issue No. 6‚ Apr-Jun ISSN: 2231-6868 MEANING OF THE TERM- DESCRIPTIVE SURVEY RESEARCH METHOD NEERU SALARIA INTRODUCTION According to Best and Kahn (2007)‚ “The term descriptive research has often been used incorrectly to describe three types of investigation that are different. Perhaps their superficial similarities have obscured their difference. Each of them employs the process of
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Lai Xu Per. 10 2-4-03 A House to Remember I have moved in and out of many houses throughout the years‚ but none of them were as important to me as the house in which I grew up. I must admit that this house‚ although enormous‚ was neither the nicest nor the most comfortable house‚ yet my nostalgic nature has propelled me to treasure that house above all others. Having parted it for almost ten years‚ some details of the house are out of my grasp. The memory of the house now stands as a symbol of
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Navigating the truck up the Sauk Mountain road‚ we were nearly at the five and half mile mark when the first true glimpse of Sauk Mountain’s west face came into view. Dead ahead‚ the four of us stared through the windshield fixated on the numerous switchbacks carved into the green vegetated hillside that emerged through the damp vaporous atmosphere. The summit above‚ hidden by a sea of clouds‚ the spectacle caught Holly by surprise generating a wake-up call. From her backseat position‚ “We’re climbing
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The hot water pulsates on my back like a heart beat after a dynamic performance. My shower is over and my fun will soon begin. My girls called me frantically on the phone screaming about the hottest party in town and I am definitely going to be seen there. I search through my closet to see what I can wear. I pick out one of my favorites; it’s a sleeveless floral chiffon blouse. It has this beautiful pop art design of red‚ yellow‚ green‚ and purple flowers with a ruffled detail at the waist. It’s
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For a guy who had just recently got used to waking up at 10 AM‚ and spending the entire day playing soccer and video games‚ it was quite a challenge to wake up at six in the morning and take the metra to downtown by seven. My visit to the Chicago History Museum was an opportunity to discover the wonders of history of one of the biggest cities in the world. The spectacular exhibits from all over Chicago offers a remarkable insight from the era of gangsters and mobs to the era of the city’s becoming
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surprise to my worn muscles. With the air clearing my mind‚ the vision came back to me. We were in the clearing of the woods where the trees were less dense. He could see me; I feet his eyes on me‚ yet I could see him It was all blurry in my mind after that‚ like having a night of heavy drinking. But none the less I knew the spot. I knew the part of the woods he was hiding in‚ and I was set in that direction. Some time past‚ but I was hard to decide how much. It’s never easy to measure time when
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sauce off their faces. Negative Description: Cooking spaghetti is a long and tiring process. One might think all you do is boil water‚ put the noodles in‚ and slap some sauce on top. But to get the best tasting sauce‚ it has to be homemade. And after spending all the time to make that special sauce‚ there is still more waiting to do. Time must pass slower when waiting for water to boil. When it finally does‚ putting the spaghetti noodles in takes time to ensure that the noodles get cooked evenly
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