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statistics lab teacher was sick, so we had a substitute instructor for two class periods. I believe our class was the first he had ever taught and I can never forget his nervousness.
—— Mao Zedong
多少事，从来急；
天地转，光阴迫。 一万年太久，只争朝夕。 ——毛泽东
I. What is description?
It is the kind of writing aimed at conveying a mental image of some object, person, place or scene through a verbal account of their appearances, movements, actions, or changes. Description states how something looks like, sounds like, feels like, smells like or tastes like.
Sample 3
The beauty of our province is as hard to define as it is easy to enjoy. Remembering other and larger provinces, we see at once that one of its charms is that it is immensely varied within a small range. we are entitled with boundless and endless Loess Plateau in the north, We are endowed here with fertile and flat Guanzhong plain in the middle, we are still luckily blessed with magic and magnificent basin in the south. We are deprived of the grandeur that may accompany these things, but we have superb variety.
“So many deeds cry out to be done,
And always urgently;
The world rolls on,
Time presses;
Ten thousand years are too long,
Seize the day, seize the hour.”
Sample 1
A companion is someone you have a special
connection with, someone you can talk to
about your problems and who will listen. A companion is someone who doesn't judge you but likes you for you. I had one such companion. It wasn’t your usual companion
II. Logical patHale Waihona Puke Baiduern
Once you have chosen the best details to fit your Purpose, you must arrange them in a logical order. This logical order or pattern is called spatial order, aiming to put the details in a logical arrangement of space or location. It can describe details in a variety of ways: A. from left to right or from right to left B. from top to bottom or from the bottom to top C. from front to back or from back to front D. from the center to the outside or from the outside to the center
Categories of description
Objective description：
Recording and reproducing a true picture;
Delivering opinions and emotions of the author excluded;
Applied in scientific prose;
Write a 200-word essay describing 1. A person, real or imaginary; 2. An object. 3. A scenic spot
As an introduction, it should be effectively the subject and thesis you choose to approach so that all the details in the body paragraphs will make a better contribution to the central impression.
Describing a person
A. appearance, including facial expressions, gestures,
carriage and manner. It may be a sketch, a closeup or a minute delineation. B. mind, or psychological description. C. action, what a person does and how he does it. D. language, what he says and how he says it.
Describing an object.
Organizing details for the description of an object depends on one’s senses because the following would be inevitably mentioned A. size B. shape C. color D. function Use specific and vivid language. To describe vividly, we may resort to different types of methods.
Points of view
A. Fixed—the observer adopts a stationary
position and confines his view to a single angle; B. Moving—the observer’s view is continuously moving past or around the object being described as he changes his position of observation.
Describing a place
Describing a place is like drawing a picture of it.
A. location
B. surroundings C. a brief account of its history, geographic as well as economic position if necessary. We may focus on a particular aspect or part of the place and present the relevant details in consistent relationship to it.
Sample essays
A. Textbook P.159. “Kittredge of Harvard” B. Textbook P.163 “The Middle Eastern Bazaar” Read it and analyze for the above features.
Assignment
Subjective description:
Emotional and value-load;
Less subjective tone than others;
Creating a focused impression;
How to write a description
I. The Introduction
though. she wasn’t another person. She was my
pet dog, Oscar.
Sample 2
Timidity is the major obstacle that people
get over when talking in public. Last week, our
