Sunday, August 24, 2008

Descriptive Writing

We are learnig how to write a descriptive paper in English class. We have learned about vivid verbs, showing not telling our reader, capitalization and punctuation, and formatting our paper.

Our target skills are:
  • writing a title
  • capitalizing the words in the title
  • beginning with a "hook"
  • indenting each paragraph 2 finger spaces
  • capitalizing the first word of each sentence
  • using proper punctuation
  • using vivid verbs
  • showing not telling our reader
  • concluding with a good take-away ending such as "This reminds me of ..."

I would like you to post your best work to this blog. We will help you fine tune your paper.