Sentences with phrase «of descriptive language»

You'll notice an absolute absence of this descriptive language in science literature because it has no use when trying to convey raw factual information.

However, this overall critique will not involve a comprehensive copy - edit or a line - by - line analysis of the descriptive language (cf. the developmental edit, below).

You need to imagine your scenes in detail, have a wide vocabulary of descriptive language, and be able to get deep inside your characters» heads.

One problem students often face is a lack of descriptive language.

The PowerPoint works for two lessons: a lesson on the character of Spiros, focusing on how we understand character through Durrell's language choices and a lesson on writing in Durrell's style, putting the students» new vocabulary and awareness of descriptive language features into action.

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Turgidity of language and argument belies its usefulness for the general reader, while its essentially descriptive character prevents the manifestation of anything profoundly new in relation to the ever - increasing corpuso f Newman studies that would require it to be essential reading for the scholar or expert.

Scientific language, although often purporting to be fundamental, is actually descriptive of an already rather late and abstract realm of objects lending themselves to demarcation by the crisp logic of mathematics.

Dictionaries are written as descriptive uses of language (they find out what the majority of people use words to mean, and write it down), rather than prescriptive uses of language (ie some governing board or king or ruler deciding what a word means and telling us how we have to use it).

Whatever one may think of Girard (and I think highly of him), one can only be grateful for the new confidence he has given theological language to do descriptive work for shaping the Church's witness to the world.

As we look at the implications of self - involving language for Christian education, we need to deal with what Evans calls preunderstanding, for performatives rely on some kind of descriptive assertions about reality.

I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.

It does not designate one of the literary genres discussed in the first part of my presentation, but rather the totality of these genres inasmuch as they exercise a referential function that differs from the descriptive referential function of ordinary language and above all of scientific discourse.

I would also have to reconsider the life choices that led to me having to negotiate my way out of a gunfight using descriptive language about meat.

Use descriptive language to help your child make sense of what he is hearing.

Use descriptive language as your baby makes things happen: «Hear the roar of the lion?»

crinkle a toy or shake a rattle in front of baby, use descriptive words to boost language development

Although this post did not set out to complete a full linguistic analysis of language around «citizens» and citizenship, its initial descriptive findings do link with some of the debates and conversations already happening in both this series and wider scholarship.

The descriptive section of the dictionary follows an introduction dealing with the British deaf community and its language.

In the last four years we have gotten interested in chemical reaction networks, where you have a set of reactions: Molecule A plus molecule B reacts to form molecule C, and X plus C forms A. Traditionally, chemical reactions have been used as a descriptive language for explaining things that we see in nature.

If the woman uses flowery language in her messages and lots of descriptive words like you are so attractive, you are my dream man or you look like a perfect man, it is more than suspicious.

- Frequent use of crude and descriptive sexual language and references.

Has lots of great descriptive language also lnks to artic animals and landscapes can be made.

Controlling for student demographics, 8th - grade test scores, English language skills, special education program participation, free or reduced - price lunch status (a measure of family income), and mobility during middle school does not alter the basic patterns of graduation and college attendance seen in the descriptive comparisons.

Andrew Lachman, executive director of the Connecticut Center for School Change, the nonprofit that organized the rounds group in Connecticut, says Elmore made it very clear when he first started working with the group that their language needed to be strictly descriptive.

Students follow a clear and logical learning journey, in which they: - Define the different story genres and understand their key content features; - Understand the key features of different genres through interesting movie clips; - Work collaboratively using the jigsaw method to ascertain the language features (vocabulary, sentences, descriptive devices) of different genres; - Engage with a number of interesting story extracts (Louis Sachar - Holes, JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Darren Shan - The Vampire's Assistant, Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid.)

In this lesson, students learn: - To define what emotions are; - To understand and use the vast range of emotional vocabulary and synonyms available in the English language; - To investigate different emotions, including how they can manifest themselves; - To understand how emotions can be communicated utilising a range of descriptive devices; - To create an imaginative and emotionally - driven piece of creative writing; - To self - assess their creative writing attempts; Included are all worksheets, and detailed and visual PowerPoint presentation, which explains each concept clearly, and a lesson plan for teacher guidance.

Students learn through the following tasks: - Collecting and discussing knowledge of the events of the day through an interactive starter task; - Reading the poem «Out of the Blue» and identifying the descriptive devices throughout the poem; - Discussing a model analytical paragraph about the language used in the poem, in order to form their own success criteria; - Using a template to form their own analytical paragraphs about the language used in the poem; - Using peer or self - assessment in order to establish their success at analysing language.

Students learn through the following tasks: - Gauging and collaborating previous knowledge through an interactive starter task; - Identifying the descriptive devices in sentences written about 19th Century characters; - Building close reading skills through a study of a fiction extract from Frankenstein - Answering exam - style questions interpreting and inferring the key meanings in the text; - Using models and templates to write extended analysis responses about the descriptive language used in the fiction extract; - Peer assessing their partners» learning attempts.

Goal To teach observation, investigation, and presentation skills using integrated curricula to become more aware of natural phenomena in neighborhood and school environments and how to use science, math, geography, and oral / written descriptive language to study, record, and share environmental information and understanding.

Integrating this tool into your ELA instruction can help students understand point of view and get them thinking about sights and sounds when writing descriptive language.

Poetry encourages the use of creative expression and descriptive language.

My analytical tone tests the language rhythms of a descriptive paragraph further along in the review: «Caramel - banana and brown sugar grapefruit glazes had already sold out.»

This new resource from AEP includes not only policy language excerpted directly from each state's education policies but also information on state - level surveys of arts education and a set of descriptive education indicators.

's application uses descriptive, specific language to define expanded learning time as part of their explanation for checking the box regarding flexibility in using 21st CCLC funds:

Integration of literacy into speech - language therapy: a descriptive analysis of treatment practices.

Includes a Teacher's Resource Guide (full - color, 120 - page guide for professional learning and explicit instruction), CD - ROM (features activities, ThinkSheets, language supports, models, and assessments), Writing Prompt Bank (100 cards, 25 each of narrative, expository, persuasive, and descriptive writing prompts, Writing Resource & Journal (6 copies; 72 - page book includes space for students to build graphic organizers, a mini thesaurus with Tier 1 and Tier 2 words), Reading Rods Kits (1 Vocabulary Individual Student Kit and 1 Sentence - Construction Individual Student Kit), Reading Rods Vocabulary Activity Cards (48 additional activities reinforce strategy instruction), and Sentence Activity Strips (6 blank write - on / wipe - off 3» long strips).

Prerequisite skills and capabilities include, but are not limited to, proficiency in reading a range and type of material, with an emphasis on informational texts; fluent writing in several modes, most notably expository, descriptive and argumentative; quantitative literacy through algebra and including geometry, combined with the ability to understand and interpret data; a understanding of the scientific method and some insight into the organization of knowledge in the sciences; an awareness of how social systems operate and how they are studied; basic proficiency in a second language and awareness that languages reflect cultures; and experiences in and appreciation of creative and expressive arts.

In spite of some repetitive self - reflection on Adam's part, Down River is a book that warrants reading at least once and perhaps once again for the skillful plot and descriptive language.

Since descriptive essay writing requires immense language skills, we assign our top writers to deliver this kind of essay.

Strikingly descriptive language grounds this dramatic novel, which folds together the story of a contemporary teenager's search for answers about her grandfather's suicide with brutal events in Nazi - occupied Holland years before.

A descriptive essay is a type of content writing about any particular topic using elaborative language in such a manner so that it creates a visualization of the topic through words for its readers.

Metaphor, simile, and the gloriously descriptive use of language lead me to believe Jesmyn Ward will be telling stories for a long time.

I love deep rich descriptive language, full of metaphors that make me sigh, characters that become my best friends and help me learn about life as they make their meaningful discoveries which move along the plot, a sincere fullfilling message (even if sad) from the characters via the author.

The author writes in beautiful, descriptive language and, at the same time, keeps socking the reader between the eyes with the revelations that unfold in this terrible story of a brutal family murder in an outback country town - a town that seeps with anger, bitterness, violence, oppressive heat and blow - flies.

- Library Journal «Tsukiyama's close attention to detail and descriptive language paint a vivid picture of the daily life of Kai Ying and her family.

In addition to the content, these narratives can be used for their literary content and examined to learn more about the craft of writing, including point of view and descriptive language to convey real or fictional events.

This critique consists of an overall review of your manuscript or non-fiction proposal to assess the general editorial and marketing weaknesses (and strengths) in the material: the eloquence, precision, and mastery of the language and descriptive prose; the freshness and resonance of the narrative voice; the general interest level of the non-fiction topic (or the presence of tension and drama in the narrative arc of the novel or memoir); and the real chances of the book, as is, to reach a targeted readership and book - buying market.

The major challenge in writing a descriptive essay has to do with use of language.

While you are engaged with your descriptive writing assignment, you have to describe the object of your work not only with the help of some factual information but also with the help of drawing a picture of this very object by using descriptive language.

Descriptive writings require use of vivid language, while the common structure with introduction, body, and conclusion is not always needed