CHARACTERISTICS OF DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH

According to Smalley and Ruetten (1985), descriptive paragraph is a paragraph that explains something from where the objects being described are located which is called spatial organization. In short, in descriptive paragraph you have to make the location of the objects being described very clear. Descriptive paragraph can be scaled based on there senses, they are visual, auditory, and smell. Descriptive paragraph has some characteristics. It has two generic structures, they are identification, and description in parts or each characteristics. The generic structures of descriptive paragraph are almost the same with report paragraph. What make different between report and descriptive is the scope of the written object. Report will be discussed in general. While descriptive  will be discussed  in particular and more specific. Descriptive paragraph uses linking verbs such as look like, to be, seems, smell, taste, has, have, etc. It also uses preposition with spatial order like in, on, down, above, over, beneath, under, between, etc.  The kind of tense which is used are simple present tense, past tense, future tense, and present continuous tense; it depends on the scope of paragraph itself. Sometimes, descriptive paragraph also uses analogy and methapor. If you want to write a paragraph of descriptive, at least it must have four main components in the structure, they are topic sentence, supporting sentences, concluding sentence and logical development. Therefore, descriptive paragraph can be conclude as the way of descriptive paragraph in showing thing is based on the objective fact of the thing. It describe the specific thing simply as the thing is.