Patterns of Development in Writing-Descriptive

Patterns of

Development in
Writing: RACHELLE Q. TRONCO

Description
Description
is one pattern of paragraph development that
paints pictures with words and brings the
action or scenes to the reader. It appeals to the
senses -smell, taste, hear, sight, and touch
through the imagination of the readers. It
builds mental images for the reader; it makes
present what is absent. -Source: Prentice Hall,
Grammar and Composition 3
To write a good description you should learn
to observe keenly and accurately. Your eyes
gather visual images; your ears gain auditory
images, and your mouth forms taste images.
Behind the sense organs is the mind which
selects important details and allows
unimportant details to go unheeded.
Descriptive writing should always contain
strong, specific details. Features such as
color, size, texture, shape, and condition
should be expressed clearly and sharply in
action verbs, precise nouns, and colorful
adjectives.
Suggestions for Writing Using the Descriptive
Pattern

1. Decide on a particular topic. It can be a

person, place, experience, or
even objects that has an impact on you and
you can deliberately discuss
and explore it.
Pattern
2. Think and formulate your dominant

impression and start drafting a statement.
Pattern
3. Consider your secondary purpose in

writing your paragraph. It can be
to deliver entertainment or just to inform your
readers on a particular
topic.
Pattern
4. List down many details and sensory

impressions as you imagine your
particular topic. Bank different vivid
descriptions that will help you
explore your dominant impression.
Pattern
5. Organize the flow of your sentences trying

to imagine how your readers can understand
your point and be familiar with your topic.
Pattern
6. Consider the involvement of your reader’s

emotions. It is there that you
can be successful in conveying your goals in
writing a descriptive
pattern.
Pattern
7. Revisit your draft for consistency of tense,

emotions, mood, and the strength of your
words’ vividness and its unity in the
dominant impressions that you presented.
Standing on his hind legs, this rare andalucian stallion is fearless. His ears
are turned back while his noble looking head is held high. His all black coat
glistens in the late afternoon sun. His face displays a strong confidence
with his nostrils flared, his veins bulging from his cheek bones, and his fiery
black eyes burning holes into the souls of those who stare into them. His
neck muscles are tensed and thickened with adrenalin. His black main is
thrown into the wind like a flag rippling in the winds of a tornado. His
muscular front legs are brought up to his chest displaying his flashing gray
hooves that could crush a man's scull with one blow. His backbone and
underbelly are held almost straight up and his hind quarters are tensed.
His back legs are spread apart for balance. His back hooves are pressed
into the earth; therefore, his hooves cause deep gouges from the weight of
his body on the soil. His black tail is held straight down and every once in a
while a burst of wind catches it and then it floats down back into place like
an elegant piece of silk falling from the sky. His bravery and strength are
what made his breed prized as a warhorse.
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The old car slowly chugged down the street like the caboose of a
steam engine train. The car goes up the hill it goes Ka boom ,
kachunk. The car is old and weathered with rust covering the
entire body like cancer consuming its victim. Wheels and tires
wobble like a drunk bum on his way home from the bar. Hub
caps are gone along with all the mirrors and extras on the car.
Black smoke flows out the rotten tail pips like the smoke out of
and old cobb pipe. The local junk yard had seen better cars then
this. The interior was a dusty brown with holes covering almost
every square inch of the seat covers. The ceiling was hanging
down and the rust had eaten through the roof like a Billy goat
through a tin can. This old car is my old car and it is as faithful as
a good old dog by always starting and getting me from were I
need to go.

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Patterns of

1. Decide on a particular topic. It can be a

2. Think and formulate your dominant

3. Consider your secondary purpose in

4. List down many details and sensory

5. Organize the flow of your sentences trying

6. Consider the involvement of your reader’s

7. Revisit your draft for consistency of tense,

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