Week 5. Descriptive Essay


Rhetorical focus

Dscriptive essay

Writing skill

Freewriting technique: Graphic organizers


Language skill

To show or to tell !!

Writing task

Choose one of the following topics. Write a three-to-four-paragraph descriptive essay (200-250 words)
1. Please describe a kind of food that you like/dislike. Describe its characteristics to show reasons why you like/dislike it.
2. Please describe qualities of being a "good person". From your viewpoints, provide the detailed qualities and examples of how to be a good person.


Be very careful of naming your electronic file!!! Follow the exact naming format: :“Essay1_98765432_王大同

Electronic file due: 10p.m., Sunday, October. 18, 2009
Printed version due: Beginning of the class on Tuesday, October. 20, 2009