"Techniques for Writing
	about Observations"

Pages 54-55 provide a list of useful techniques for writing about observations and the ways in which an author limits or FOCUSES on the specific details of an observation in order to present a "dominant idea" that reflects the writer's PURPOSE.  A passage from Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa provides an example of this.  If you want to make a transparency of the listed techniques, move to the next screen.  Read the pages before so that you will be able to explain and give examples when you place the list on the overhead.
	
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	Techniques for Writing about Observations

*	Giving sensory details (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste).

* 	Using comparisons and images -- helps readers visualize the unfamiliar.

*	Describing what is not there.
	
*	Noting changes in the subject's form or condition.

*	Writing from a distinct point of view.

*	Focusing on a dominant idea.