Descriptive Paragraph
Instructions
Outdoor Experience Description – Detail a real or imaginary experience walking through an outdoor
event or activity, such as a zoo, open-air market, festival, etc.
You only need to develop one paragraph for this assignment, but it should include many sensory details
and directional transitions. Start with a topic sentence, which will also serve as the thesis statement, that
explains the exhibition you are experiencing as well as mentions how the adventure ignites your senses. In the sentences following, describe your journey. What do you see? Hear? Feel? Smell? Taste? Where are these experiences located (directional transitions)? To the right? Just above? The reader should be able to build the environment around you and take part in the sensory experience you illustrate as he or she reads along, so be as descriptive as necessary, touching upon all five senses within the body paragraph.
Complete your paragraph with a concluding sentence that summarizes your outing, and make sure it has a point! In other words, what did you take away from this excursion?
Notes
· You can use either past or present tense verbs to describe your experience in this assignment, but avoid
unnecessary tense shifts.
· In addition to directional transitions, be sure to use standard transitions between sentences where
applicable so that your ideas are fluid from start to finish.
