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- Title
Do Not Just Tell, Paint an Image: The Art of Descriptive Writing for Beginners.
- Authors
Uddin, Kawsar; Ahmed, Tazin
- Abstract
Teaching descriptive writing is a common practice in an ESL writing class. However, there is no general agreement to what kind of strategy is the most helpful and why it is helpful. This paper is a library research which examines the relationship between teachers' instructions and strategies in relation to writer's performance. The study explores the setbacks that the ESL writers face in descriptive compositions. The paper also elucidates and illustrates descriptive writing and its components. The study then analyzes a rubric which recounts the pathway to guiding ESL writers' master descriptive writing. The analysis, finally, suggests that implementation of several instructional strategies help an ESL writer, in particular, a beginner, to improve his or her confidence in writing a descriptive composition.
- Subjects
DESCRIPTION (Rhetoric); ENGLISH as a foreign language; ENGLISH language education; LANGUAGE research; ENGLISH language writing; ENGLISH composition; RHETORIC research
- Publication
Language in India, 2014, Vol 14, Issue 11, p58
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article