This document discusses descriptive writing techniques. Descriptive writing aims to create vivid images for the reader using detailed sensory descriptions. It contrasts with concise writing, which conveys meaning using as few words as possible. Descriptive writing techniques include appealing to the five senses, removing obvious descriptions, using figurative language like metaphors, choosing fresh descriptive words, and reading examples of descriptive writing. The document provides examples of concise versus descriptive writing and outlines five main techniques: the five senses rule, removing apparent description, figurative language, fresh words, and reading samples.

1. DESCRIPTIVE
WRITING

2. Definition of Descriptive Writing
Descriptive writing is writing in which
the author's intent is to create a vivid
image of what he/she is describing in
the mind of the reader.
It relies on the author using detailed
descriptions that convey the sensory
details of what he/she is describing,
often with the use of specific
techniques.

3. STRONG DESCRIPTION
A DESCRIPTION may have just a few
details, or it may have dozens, but the
important thing is that they all work
together to create vivid image in the
reader’s mind.

4. FINDING DETAILS
You need to provide your readers with
details to help them imagine these
things.
A description without details is like a
frame without a picture:
you can’t expect your readers
to see anything if you don’t give them
something to look at.

5. METHODS YOU
USE IN
DESCRIBING

6. OBSERVATION
 Use it in something you
actually see.
 What is your overall
impression?
 What sounds do you hear?
 To what could you compare
it?

7. RESEARCH
 After observing it, a research
can help
 Visit the library in your
school or neighborhood.
 Encyclopedias and other
references contain detailed
information about almost
ever conceivable subject.

8. MEMORY
 If you want to describe
something that you observed
in the past, use your
memory.
 Create an image based on
everything that you
remember.
 Let your mind review it,
noting details.

9. IMAGINATION
 Use it if you want to describe
something that doesn’t exist.
 Because the details is
imaginary, you can make up
all the details you need.
 Create a details in your mind
examine it closely.

10. Descriptive writing directly contrasts
with concise writing.
Descriptive writing requires the author
to spend a great deal of time and words
painting a visual picture for the reader,
in concise writing, the author's intent is
to use as precise language and as few
words as possible to convey their
meaning.

11. Descriptive writing directly contrasts
with concise writing.
For example:
Concise: He saw she was wearing a red
dress.
Descriptive: The dress was the red of
every man's middle-aged crisis sports
car, and parts of it reflected the lights in
the room like the sun off of the hood. For
him, they were two lost dreams.

12. Descriptive writing directly contrasts
with concise writing.
For example:
Concise: Their feet got wet when they
walked on the beach.
Descriptive: When the waves came in
and their feet got wet, she squeaked like
she used to when they were young and
she was surprised. The water erased
twenty years in an instant.

13. Descriptive writing directly contrasts
with concise writing.
The meaning of each pair is generally
the same, but the effect of the writing is
different. In concise writing, the reader
receives the essential information
quickly. In descriptive writing, the
reader is more able to picture the scene.

14. Five Main Techniques in Descriptive
Writing
1. Five Senses Rule
For any novice writer learning the ropes of
descriptive writing, the first rule is to appeal
to all the five senses of the reader.
Using detail that attracts the five senses, sight,
hearing, taste, touch, and smell will surely set
the tone right for a good piece of descriptive
writing.
This kind of detail will make the writing more
interesting and engaging.

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Writing
2. Removing Apparent Description
Description or detail that is very normal and
apparent should be left out of writing as it
takes up undue space.
Using that space to fill your work with fresh
new ideas or words will make your writing
more convincing.
It will also give you more time and room to
think of other ways of making your writing
interesting.

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Writing
3. Using Figurative/ Descriptive Literary
Techniques
Techniques such as Personification, Similies,
Hyperboles, Onomatopoeia, and Metaphors
are critical masterstrokes that writers use.
Not only do these enhance the language but
also provide richness to the writing.
When you attribute a human quality or
emotion to an inanimate object that is called
Personification.

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Writing
4. Using Fresh/New Descriptive Words
Sometimes, fresh and novel words or phrases stick
with readers.
That is why descriptive writing is a constantly
evolving process.
There is no one correct way of writing in this style.
If the readers connect with your words then you
know it’s right.
That is why finding fresh ways to connect with the
reader is important.

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Writing
5. Reading Good Samples of Descriptive Writing
Reading is a very easy yet sublime way to improve any
type of writing skill. It doesn’t matter whether the
material is descriptive or narrative in nature.
What matters is that reading is a very subconscious
way of learning how to write well and descriptive
writing is no different. If you wish to succeed as a fine
descriptive writer then, the most natural way to do so
is to read descriptive material yourself. Reading and
writing are a part and partial of our lives, we are
surrounded by language and words.

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Writing
The more we read, the more exposure we get
to different writing styles, new words, and
phrases, or even new trends of writing.
The mind absorbs several concepts, ideas,
signs, words, and detail subconsciously.
The trick is to make reading a constant habit
so that the information being synced in can
also translate through personal skill and help
you tell your story successfully.