ENGINEERING IDEA PARAGRAPH

WRITING

WRITTEN BY:

NAME: ZAINUL ANWAR

NIM: 2163121049

SUBJECT: PARAGRAPH WRITING

CLASS : REGULAR C

LECTURER:Prof. Dr. BERLIN SIBARANI, M.Pd

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
2016
TABLE OF CONTAINS

TABLE OF CONTAINS....................................................................................................................i

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................1

CHAPTER II ORIGINAL IDEA .....................................................................................................2

CHAPTER III MOTIVATION FOR INOVATION........................................................................3

CHAPTER IV DERIVED IDEA .....................................................................................................3

CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS.................................................................4

REFERENCES..................................................................................................................................5

CHAPTER I
 INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the study

In State Senior High School 1 Dolok Masihul, actually for students grade elevenths
ability in writing the strategies for writing a descriptive paragraph . The reason why they are
low wrriting the strategies for a desriptive paragraph because their teacher never tell them
about the structure. So, almost all of them do not know the structure of comparison and
contrast paragraph. In the grammatical of the paragraph which the students grade eleventh of
senior high school have written, I also find some grammatical and spelling error.
Therefore, the reason why I do this research in State Senior High School 1 Dolok
Masihul because I want to observation their ability in writing the strategies for writing a
descriptive paragraph and I hope their ability are developing.

B. Problem Formulation

1.How to improve the strategies for writing a descriptive paragraph?

C. Purpose

To improve state senior high school 1 Dolok Masihul grade elevenths ability in the
strategies for writing a descriptive paragraph.

CHAPTER II

THE ORIGINAL IDEA

 According to Peter Knapp and Megan Watkins: Genre, Text and Grammar, The genre
of describing is one of the fundamental functions of any language system and one of the first
skills emergent language-users learn to control. It is also one of the most widely used genres
across all of the learning areas, K-6 and beyond. Description enables the categorisation or
classification of an almost infinite range of experiences, observations and interactions into a
system that orders them for immediate and future reference, and allows us to know them
either objectively or subjectively, depending on the learning area or intent of the writer.
Describing is also used extensively in many text types, such as information reports, literary
descriptions, descriptive recounts and, due to the need to classify and/or describe a process
before explaining it, in the opening paragraphs of most explanations. Describing is also
a central feature of narrative texts providing the means for developing characterisation, sense
of place and key themes. Students describe when they are:

talking or writing about a picture:

This is a beach. These are lots of umbrellas on it and boats on the sea

writing about a character or place in a story:

Theo in James Valentines book Jump Man is an interesting character. He has spiky hair that
changes colour all the time and he wears a coat that speaks.

reporting on an animal:
A platypus is a monotreme. It has a bill and sharp claws. It lives in and near streams and isnt
seen by people very often.

While many texts, both factual and non-factual, make use of describing to differing
degrees, some texts, like information reports, are predominantly about description. They
formally describe phenomena from a technical point of view.
1. When describing things from a technical or factual point of view, the present tense is
predominantly used.
2. Although present tense may be used in literary descriptions, it is past tense that tends
to dominate.
3. Relational verbs are used when classifying and describingappearance/qualities and
parts/functions of phenomena (is, are,has, have).
4. Action verbs are used when describing behaviours/uses.

CHAPTER III

MOTIVATION FOR INOVATION

 Motivation of this inovation is to improve and developing the strategies for writing a
descriptive paragraph and be able to apply in education areas.

CHAPTER IV

DERIVED IDEA

Strategies for Writing a Descriptive Paragraph

1. Uses words that help readers see, hear, feel, smell and sometimes taste what is
happening.
2. Includes plenty of details.
3. Expresses how the writer feels.
4. Uses vivid words that appeal to the senses.
5. Uses precise words that give specific information about the topic.
6. Uses different types of language.
7. Includes a main idea for each paragraph
8. Includes detail sentences that tell about the main idea of each paragraph.
9. Includes a topic sentence.
10. Tells what is being described.
11. Uses details to show what made the event exciting and memorable.
12. Shows excitement about the event.
13. Uses strong, specific language that appeals to the senses.
14. Includes a closing paragraph that tells what the event means to the writer.

CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

a. Conclusion
 In my conclusion, the way that we can use in writing a descriptive paragraph , what
are the strategies for writing a descriptive paragraph. The strategies for writing a descriptive
paragraph are uses words that help readers see, hear, feel, smell and sometimes taste what is
happening, includes plenty of details, expresses how the writer feels, uses vivid words that
appeal to the senses, uses precise words that give specific information about the topic, uses
different types of language, includes a main idea for each paragraph, includes detail sentences
that tell about the main idea of each paragraph, includes a topic sentence, tells what is being
described, uses details to show what made the event exciting and memorable, shows
excitement about the event, uses strong, specific language that appeals to the sensesIncludes a
closing paragraph that tells what the event means to the writer.

b. Suggestion

In my suggestion, i hope we can improve our writing skills by knowing the strategies
of writing a descriptive paragraph.

REFERENCES

Knapp, Peter and Watkins, Megan. (2005) Genre, text, grammar: technologies for teaching
and assessing writing.University of New South Wales. University of New South
Wales Press Ltd