The document discusses the importance of incorporating sensory details - sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste - when writing. Using vivid sensory details engages the reader's interest by bringing them into the world being created. It is important for writers to remember events through their senses and include those details in their writing. Readers learn about the world through their senses, so writing with sensory details is more likely to engage and affect the reader. The goals of the module are to help readers identify sensory details, utilize language to evoke emotional responses, and read closely as writers aware of craft techniques.

1. SENSORY
EXPERIENCE
Week 2

2. Sensory details include sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. Writers
employ the five senses to engage a reader's interest. If you want your
writing to jump off the page, then bring your reader into the world you are
creating. When describing a past event, try and remember what you saw,
heard, touched, smelled, and tasted, then incorporate that into your writing.
It is important to remember that human beings learn about the world
through using the five senses. They are our primary source of knowledge
about the world. Therefore, writing which incorporates vivid, sensory detail
is more likely to engage and affect the reader.
OVERVIEW

3. At the end of the module, you should be able to:
* identify sensory details
* utilize language to evoke emotional and intellectual
response from the readers
* read closely as writers with consciousness of craft
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

4. Sensory Details in Writing
 The writer's ability to
create a gripping and
memorable story has
much to do with
engaging our five
senses.

5. Sensory Details Definition
 Sensory details include sight,
sound, touch, smell, and taste.
Writers employ the five senses to
engage a reader's interest.
 If you want your writing to jump off the
page, then bring your reader into the
world you are creating. When describing
a past event, try and remember what you
saw, heard, touched, smelled, and
tasted, then incorporate that into your
writing.

6. Sensory details are used
in any great story, literary or
not.
o Think about your favorite movie
or video game. What types of
sounds and images are used?
What do your favorite
characters taste, smell, and
touch?
Without sensory details,
stories would fail to come to
life.

7. When sensory details are used,
your readers can personally
experience whatever you're trying
to describe, reminding them of their
own experiences and giving your
writing a universal feel.
 A universal quality is conveyed
when the writer is able to
personally connect with the
readers.

8. There is no sense that's
more important than the
other. It all depends on the
scene you're trying to
create.
 However, visual imagery,
the sight sense, is a
common feature in vivid
writing.

9. “I went to the store and bought
some flowers. Then I headed to the
meat department. Later I realized I
forgot to buy bread.”
“Upon entering the grocery store, I headed
directly for the flower department, where I
spotted yellow tulips. As I tenderly rested the
tulips in my rusty shopping cart, I caught a
whiff of minty dried eucalyptus, so I added
the fragrant forest green bouquet of
eucalyptus to my cart. While heading for the
meat department, I smelled the stench of
seafood, which made my appetite disappear.”
Let's look at sensory details in
action. Compare the following
two passages describing a trip
to the grocery store.

10. How will you
describe these
scene using
the sensory
details?
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12. Writing with the senses is an important part of
writing well. Adjectives bring writing to life and pull the
reader into the text and help activate his or her
imagination.

13. Sensory details help the reader feel like he or she was
there and create a more intimate connection to the narrator
or writer and a greater understanding of the text.
Adjectives help set mood and tone in the text and help
establish a strong voice.

14. ACTIVITY 1