Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Body
- physical description
- character/personality
- habits
- important incidents
- relationship with you and others
- why you admire him/her
Conclusion
- what the person stands for
- what the person means to you
• Describing places or scenes
When you describe places, pay attention to the
following aspects :
Type of place
Location
Distance
Attractions
Facilities/Amenities
Accommodation
• When you describe scenes, pay attention to sensory
description.
Sounds
Smell
Taste
Touch
Sight
FACTUAL COMPOSITIONS
The main purpose of factual composition is to inform.
So, to write factual compositions, you must have
accurate information about the topic being discussed.
- Information about a topic
- Causes and effects
- Analysis of problems, issues and situations and
proposals for solutions
Some examples of factual topics:
• Pollution – causes and effects
• Tuition – reasons for its popularity
• Tourism – how to promote it
• Deforestation – causes and effects
• E-learning – benefits
• Dental care – importance
• Smoking – health effects
• Mobile phones – health hazards
ARGUMENTATIVE COMPOSITIONS
iii. Resolution
• - What happened as a result of the complication?
• - What effect did this have on you?
• - What is the outcome of the action or complication?
•
• Use sensory details to reveal the events and to get the reader
involved.
Example:
• a. I went into the restaurant.
• b. I walked into the restaurant.
• c. I sauntered into the restaurant.
• Sentence (a) merely states that I went into the restaurant while
sentence (b) gives a little more information as to how I went into
the restaurant. Sentence (c) is more specific as the word
“sauntered” means “strolled” or “walked slowly”. Thus, sentence
(c) is more effective in narrative and descriptive writing.
C. Checking
• Read your essay through and check for the following:
Events/complication
• What happened first?
• How did it happen?
• What happened then?
• The writer uses short sentences here to emphasise the event that
took place quickly.
• Notice the sensory details used here (in bold) to make the story
come alive.
• Each paragraph introduces a gap in time and the next event.
Resolution
• What happened as a result of that event?
• What effect did this have on the writer?
• What is the result ?
"Good writing does not just happen. The best
writers spend a great deal of time thinking,
planning, rewriting, and editing."
Elizabeth West