Chap 5 RR

Details are a part of my writing that need some serious adjustments.  I have noticed that my writings lack descriptive details that allow my reader to understand or picture what I am describing.  Focusing on the different types of descriptions that I want will help with adding more of the right stuff.  If I am writing an essay describing the different steps a bill has to go through to become a law, I will use objective or unbiased and unemotional description.  If I am describing my grandma's home made strawberry rhubarb pie, I would draw more on expressive details, making it personal and maybe emotional for my reader.
As a student progressing into higher-level writing, the important thing to focus on is the structure of the description and the actual words used in the description.  The structure needs to be different for different parts of my paper.  I might choose to arrange my description in chronological order so I would not put what happens at the end in the middle of my paper.  I might choose progressive order so I could save the best event or idea for last and leave the reader with the most important point of the paper.  The next most important concept for higher-level writers to grasp is word content.  A dog is no longer a dog, it is a white splatted faced border collie with a shimmering black back.  See what I mean? More intense and descriptive word content.

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by:Cole Moffitt