Description Essay Reader-Response Sheet
Description Essay
Reader-Response Sheet
Writer’s name: ___Jacqui Nyangi Owitti_________
Reader’s name: ___Pramephan Kulpreyawat________
As the writer, my major concerns/questions for my readers are:
Reader, please respond to each question.
1. What is the writer’s topic?
To recalls an important personal experience in her life that taught her the pain of loss
2. What is/are the dominant impression(s) the writer seems to be making? If there is a sentence that states the dominant impression, write it here. If there is not a sentence that states the dominant impression, write what you believe it is.
The dominant impression the writer seem to be; “I stare at him and can not tear myself away. I weep, saying over and over that he is smiling, he is smiling. My heartbreak and tears echo the refrain. He is smiling—a radiant, unforgettable smile.”
3. Has the writer used a subjective or objective perspective? What makes the choice of perspective work well in the essay?
She used an objective perspective because she describe by explain how everything she saw and how she felt from them.
4. What makes the opening effective? How might it be made more effective?
The writer started by describes who she is and how innocents of her by let we know how old she was, how was her family and how she felt at that time.
5. What do you find to be most effective about the essay as a whole?
She had very well planed story and described detail and feeling; example how innocent she was, personality of her grandfather in her memory, very well describe how she knew that her grandfather died and how she felt upset in her childhood.
6. Discuss the level and breadth of detail used—where does the writer use language effectively? Where does she/he use sensory images? Which senses does the writer appeal to? Where has the writer used active verbs?
She often used sensory images, for example As the bull is led away into the boma, people enter the room that has been emptied of furniture.
7. Make some suggestions for increasing the level and breadth of detail. Please make specific references to the essay.
None.
8. What two or three specific questions do you have for the writer?
None.
9. Please circle any words that you suspect are misspelled or are typos—DON’T CORRECT THEM!
None.
10. Indicate with “frag” any sentence fragments you suspect or find.
Watching the drama unfold(end of paragrph4.)
11. Indicated with “r-o” any comma splices or fused sentences that you suspect or find.
None.
12. Please check off each of the following items that apply:
_____ proper heading (you, me, class, date)
_____ a title that describes the contents of the essay
__1__ 2 full pages minimum length
_____ a good opening gambit
_____ appeals to all the senses
__1__sight
__1__sound
_____smell
__1__taste
_____touch
_____ uses strong verbs
_____ uses at least one simile or metaphor
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