Definition and Characteristic of Writing Descriptive Text

Descriptive is writing technique which aims to make the reader as though in some place that is portrayed through writing, come to feel, seeing and hearing an event that is on descriptive writing. writing descriptive is more interesting than other writing, because you can describe the the place, character or the other you describe and the reader as though can feeling, seeing and hearing when the reader is read the descriptive writing. The purpose of descriptive writing is to describe someone, place or thing that details to the reader in form writing as though the reader can be feel, seeing and hearing through in writing.

             According of Mukarto that "Descriptive text is a kind of text to describe something, someone or place. Descriptive text has two main parts, they are identification and description. the structure of a text is called the generic structure. Descriptive text is likes describe white house, animals, fruits, etc (Mukarto, 2007:140)". From the mukarto statement, we can conclude that descriptive text is a text to describe

something, someone or place and descriptive text have a two main parts such as identification and description thats called generic structure.

• Generic Structure in Descriptive text

           The generic structure is arrangement in writing the descriptive text that article we write in accordance with the existing rules in the descriptive text. The generic structure such as :

•  Identification : Contains the identification of terms or preliminary / the general describe of someone or things of the topic.
• Description : Contains of the explained, describe of things and someone that more detail from the identification that has general describe.

           To make descriptive text, we have to determine the topic descriptive text then you make general describe of descriptive text. The general describe that will be make detail description.

• Characteristic of Descriptive text

        There are some characteristic of descriptive text to know whether the descriptive text or not, such as :

• Focus on descriptive text such as the describe someone, place, animal, plant and things. 
• Using simple present tense
• In the text title use the detail noun phrase such as the explain about phone, hence the title of which is use not only mobile phones, but use the title samsung galaxy E5 SM-E500F.
• Have an adjective as a noun explanations.
• Text is try to describe things so the reader know its shape as through they are looking at what is described in the text.
• Written explanation from general to specific.

             That all about descriptive text definition. Descriptive text is one of the type in writing method that have a good writing which suitable with novel, story, describe someone, describe place or other. we hope this article can be useful to the reader. thank you for your coming and see you in the next post.

Reference :

Mukarto, Sujadmiko, Jesophine, S.M & Widya Kiswara.2007.English on the sky smp book. vii.Erlangga.