- Writing Guide

My Great Holiday: the final destination describe the characteristic features of a particular thing, person or place they may be short (2 to 3 words) or longer (2 to 3 paragraphs) they are often used in literary or poetic texts but are also useful in science and HSIE help to classify particular things, persons or places lead to making generalisations about things, persons and places Descriptions have: An introduction to the subject Statements about the characteristic features of the subject An optional concluding comment Evaluation may occur through the text The introduction mostly a brief general statement about the subject may not include much detail the introduction will tell the reader just enough so that he/she will want to keep reading Characteristic features of the subject the writer describes or tells about the subject many adjectives are used - 3 to 4 at a time adjectives have a conventional order give number, size, colour, action and finally the genus (name, kind, sort or class) Optional concluding statement if the description is the whole text, rather than part of a text, a short summary statement may 'finish off' the writing In literary and personal descriptions writers may make evaluation statements throughout the text