Review Questions

Working with classmates or independently, respond to the following questions:

  1. Question

    To write a compelling description of a scene, you need to gather a lot of sensory details. How do you decide which ones to include or leave out?

  2. Question

    What are the benefits of making both objective and subjective observations about a scene that you want to describe? Before answering the question, you might think of an interesting scene that you have observed on your campus or elsewhere and then make objective and subjective observations about it. How did this process deepen or enrich your perspective?

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    Question

    What is the major task of revising thesis of writing that describes a scene?