Great Descriptive Writing Assisgnment
Each of you has found one paragraph of what you consider to be great descriptive writing and you have shared that paragraph with other people in your class. Now I’d like you to pick what you consider to be the best piece of descriptive writing you have read today (that means it could be one of the pieces a classmate brought) and write about it in an article for your blog.
Please begin by explaining where the paragraph came from and when you read it. This is important because readers of your blog were not necessarily in class! Then explain what sets that piece apart from others. What makes it great descriptive writing? The key here is to be honest; please do not regurgitate my class notes in an effort to earn points. State why you think this is great.
When you finish discussing the piece, please type the paragraph into your article and set it apart in a block quote. You do this by highlighting the text in your article’s draft and clicking the “Indent/Blockquote” icon on the toolbar. If you are not sure how this works, I will show you. Underneath the quote, cite the source, including the author and where you read it.
Need an example? See the article I shared last week in class about an Annie Dillard passage.
This is what a blockquote will look like on this site:
The sun rose thinly from the sea and the old man could see the other boats, low on the water and well in toward the shore, spread out across the current. Then the sun was brighter and the glare came on the water and then, as it rose clear, the flat sea sent it back at his eyes so that it hurt sharply and he rowed without looking into it.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea.
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