description (rhetoric)

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description (rhetoric)

Descriptive paragraphs

Offers a brief introduction to writing descriptive paragraphs, with tips on using adjectives and other parts of speech to describe persons, places, or things.

The big book of details

46 moves for teaching writers to elaborate
2016
Offers 46 lessons for teaching students how to elaborate with details when writing.

Descriptionary

a thematic dictionary
2000

A step-by-step guide to descriptive writing

2005
Presents a step-by-step guide to descriptive writing and provides information on pre-writing and first drafts, revisions, proofreading and editing, and presentation.

Descriptionary

a thematic dictionary
1992
Combination of reverse dictionary and thesaurus with thousands of descriptions of terms organized into 20 subject categories.

Descriptive paragraphs

2008
Offers tips for writing descriptive paragraphs and presents examples of well-written paragraphs that describe American sites and symbols.

Descriptionary

2000
Combination of reverse dictionary and thesaurus with thousands of descriptions of terms organized into more than twenty subject categories.

Descriptionary

2005
A reference designed to help readers find thousands of precise terms related to animals and insects, architecture, art, clothing, electronics, the environment, finance, food and drink, language, law, medicine, music, occupations, religions, and ten other broad subjects, arranged in 314 thematic glossaries.
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