Chapter 5 Descriptive Writing Response

While reading chapter 5 there were many points that stuck out to me concerning proper use of description patterns within writing.  I learned how important it is to be able to know how to properly express what you, as the writer is feeling through words. Therefore, descriptive observations of feelings, smells and visuals are extremely vital to a good writing, or as the text states, “observe, describe and evaluate (Clouse pg122).”  In addition, I was surprised to see how much description plays into such a wide variety of workplace demands. Furthermore I learned that descriptions are critical to a writer in a specific way that can either make or break a writers soul objective. I especially thought the objective and expressive detail points were important being that they open up a writer’s options, allowing them to choose which view points they would like to go with. Along with what type of view point they would like to build their writing upon, for example choosing an emotional stand point opposed to a factual one could make a big difference when considering the audience and purposes of the writing. Lastly, the expressive detail examples listed on page 125 were especially inspiring to me. I found myself wanting to read more and more as the descriptive detail sucked me in and left me thinking, “wow…this is how I want to write.” In addition one of the most important points which stuck out to me when considering descriptive word usage was that instead of using a dictionary or thesaurus to get a point across, simply spicing up general nouns in replace of specific nouns can provide an overall more efficient reading experience. In addition, when going back to read the final draft it will be obvious that the use of descriptive words can make all the difference, “specific words are more descriptive (Clouse pg126).”

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