Two Descriptions Paper:
For this assignment, pretend you are entering a contest sponsored by a travel magazine. The rules are that readers must read a description of a place and decide whether they would like to visit it or avoid it. The only prohibition for the writer is that he or she must not directly tell the reader whether the place is pleasant or unpleasant. Readers must be able to decide, based solely on the writer’s description.
You must visit the place of your choice (see #1 below) and then, based on your observations only, you must write two descriptions of the same place. Each description must convey a di fferent dominant impression. One description must make the reader want to visit this place, and one description must make the reader want to avoid this place.
To get full credit for this assignment, you must do three things.
1. Go to a place of your choice and observe this place for 15-20 minutes, making notes of what you observe. Be sure to use all five senses. Please note: you may not use your home or your yard for this assi gnment. Some good places are the zoo, a park, a movie theater, a café, a shopping mall. Do not rel y on memories of a place you have been to before; this will not ful fill the assi gnment properly.
2. Write two descriptions of this place, each conveying a di fferent dominant impression and each consisting of 125-175 words. Describe only what you observed during your 15-20 minute period.
3. Write an analysis of 200-250 words. In your analysis, do the following:
- Explain how you created the di ffering impressions (what strategies you used). See strategies #2-5 on pages 47-48 for help with this. (Remember, you may not use strategy #1.) Cite speci fic examples of each strategy you used.
Identi fy the most important thing you have learned as a writer from this exercise. You will be able to revise this assignment.