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Adult Learning Centre: Tips for Writers by Brad Hyde
A Dominant Impression: Writing Better Description
When writing a description,
the dominant impression created (through the use of the senses,
metaphor and other rhetorical devices) helps determine the purpose of
descriptive writing (paragraph or essay).
Try this exercise: look over your descriptive writing and find what
impression you are trying to create (you may want to shock, to
enlighten, to gather sympathy, to make us all warm and fuzzy . . .).
Now, find all the places in your writing that helps you to achieve that
impression.
What did you find? Add, focus and strengthen sentences that help to
create the impression you want. The reader will find your ideas easier
to follow.
(September 17, 2007)
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